Achatinella elegans Newcomb, 1854
Elegant Oahu tree-snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Achatinella bulimoides elegans Newcomb, 1854; Achatinella spadicea Gulick; Achatinella wheatleyi Nob; Achatinella vidua Pfeiffer
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1952 (Mollusc Specialist Group, 1996b)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
OSUM 31440
Media
References
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
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.
Mollusc Specialist Group. (1996a). Achatinella elegans. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 September 2011.
Mollusc Specialist Group. 1996b. Achatinella elegans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T181A13045735. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T181A13045735.en. Downloaded on 27 June 2021.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.