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Orobophana carinacosta Preece, 1998:354

Henderson Island orobophana snail

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

 

Distribution

Henderson Island, Pitcairn group, South Pacific

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Preece, R. C. (1998). Impact of early Polynesian occupation on the land snail fauna of Henderson Island, Pitcairn group (South Pacific). Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 353(1367): 347-368.

 

Other references:

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.

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://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/23716/orobophana-carinacosta

 

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