Discocharopa aperta (Moellendorff, 1888)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Patula aperta Möllendorff, 1888 (original combination); Endodonta (Charopa) planorbulina Tate, 1896; Endodonta concinna Hedley, 1901; Charopa exquisita Iredale, 1913; Discocharopa exquisita (Iredale, 1913); Discocharopa microdiscus (van Benthem Jutting, 1951)
Conservation Status
Erroneously listed as extinct
Although listed as extinct by both global studies of recent mollusc extinctions (Régnier et al., 2009; Cowie et al., 2017), the species has a large distribution (MolluscaBase, 2021). Including having apparently been introduced to Madeira (Gittenberger & Ripken, 1983).
Distribution
Oceania & south-east Asia (native) & Madeira (introduced)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1888). Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der Malakozoologie von den Philippinen. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 20: 65-90.
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.
Gittenberger, E. and Ripken, Th. E. J. (1983). Discocharopa aperta (Möllendorff, 1888) (Pulmonata, Charopidae) on Madeira. Basteria 47 (5-6): 58.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Discocharopa aperta (Möllendorff, 1888). Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=821205 on 2022-02-28
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
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