Galba perpolita (Dall, 1905)
Glossy fossaria
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Stagnicola perpolita Dall, 1905; Fossaria perpolita (Dall, 1905); Lymnaea perpolita Dall, 1905
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1905 or before
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Kantor et al. (2009) lists this species as extant in Chukchi Peninsula, Russia. Such a record needs verifying, and so this species is not yet definitely extinct.
Distribution
Nushagak, Bristol Bay, Alaska (southwestern), USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dall, W. H. (1905). Land and Freshwater Mollusks. Doubleday, Page and Company, New York.
Other references:
Baker, F. C. (1911). The Lymnaeidae of North and middle America. Recent and fossil, pp. 1-539. The Chicago Academy of Sciences, Special Publication.
Burch, J.B. 1989. North American Freshwater Snails. Malacological Publications: Hamburg, Michigan. 365 pp.
Cordeiro, J. and Perez, K. (2011). Galba perpolita. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T189609A8754830. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189609A8754830.en. Downloaded on 13 November 2017.
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.
Hubendick, B. 1951. Recent Lymnaeidae. Their variation, morphology, taxonomy, nomenclature, and distribution. Kunglica Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar Series 4, 3(1): 1-223.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). 1998. Opinion 1896. Galba Schrank, 1803 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): Buccinum truncatulum Müller. 1774 designated as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 55:123.
Johnson, P.D., Bogan, A.E., Brown, K.M., Burkhead, N.M., Cordeiro, J.R., Garner, J.T., Hartfield, P.D., Lepitzki, D.A.W., Mackie, G.L., Pip, E., Tarpley, T.A., Tiemann, J.S., Whelan, N.V. and Strong, E.E. 2013. Conservation status of freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States. Fisheries 38(6): 247-282.
Kantor, Y. I., Schileyko, A. A., Vinarski, M. V. and Sysoev, A. V. (2009). Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories.
NatureServe. (2017). NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://explorer.natureserve.org. (Accessed: November 14, 2017).
Standley, C. J., Prepelitchi, L., Pietrokovsky, S. M., Issia, L., Stothard, J. R., and Wisnivesky-Colli, C. 2013. Molecular characterization of cryptic and sympatric lymnaeid species from the Galba/Fossaria group in Mendoza Province, Northern Patagonia, Argentina. Parasites & vectors 6(1): 304. [relevant reference?]
Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn, Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione, and J.D. Williams. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks. 2nd Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26, Bethesda, Maryland: 526 pp.