Ogasawarana metamorpha (Kuroda, 1956)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pleuropoma metamorpha Kuroda, 1956 (protonym); Ogasawarana nitida Minato, 1980 (junior homonym and synonym)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in July 2010
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
This species is considered extinct by (Cowie et al., 2017), who may not have been aware of its rediscovery.
Distribution
Ogasawara Islands, Japan
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Kuroda, T. (1956). Nihon oyobi rinsetsu chi’iki-san rikusei kairui so (2) [Synopsis of the terrestrial mollusks of Japan and adjacent areas part 2]. Venus 19(2): 132-147. [In Japanese.]
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Callomon, Paul. (2015). On the authorship and types of three Ogasawara helicinids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 164(1): 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1635/053.164.0105
Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Iwakawa, T. (1919). Catalogue of the Japanese Mollusca in the Natural History Department, Tokyo Imperial Museum. 2+3+318+595+39 pp. Tokyo, Imperial Museum.
Minato, Hiroshi. (1980). Helicinidae of the Ogasawara Islands, with the Descriptions of Five New Species. Venus (Japanese Journal of Malacology) 38(4): 235-246.
Mollusc Specialist Group. (1996). Ogasawarana metamorpha. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 20 April 2014.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ogasawarana metamorpha (Kuroda, 1956). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=854180 on 2022-04-23
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
http://www.repository.lib.tmu.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10748/5024/1/20002-35-001.pdf