Partula arguta Pease, 1864
Acute Huahine tree-snail, Huahine tiny partula tree snail, Polynesian tree snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1991 (wild) (Gerlach, 2022); 14 April 1994 (captivity) (Gerlach, 2022)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Pease, W. H. 1865 (for 1864). Descriptions of New Species of Land Shells from the Islands of the Central Pacific. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 32: 668-676.
Other references:
Coote, T. (2009a). Partula arguta. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 July 2013.
Coote, T. (2009b). Partula arguta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16284A5596898. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16284A5596898.en. Accessed on 19 June 2022.
Coote, T. and Loeve, E. (2003). From 61 species to five: endemic tree snails of the Society Islands, French Polynesia fall prey to an ill-judged biological control programme. Oryx 37(1): 91-96. [Abstract]
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.
Gerlach, Justin. (2022). Partula arguta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T16284A221460920. Accessed on 11 December 2022.
Lee, Taehwan et al. (2014). Evolutionary history of a vanishing radiation: isolation-dependent persistence and diversification in Pacific Island partulid tree snails. BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 202.
Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.
Richardson, C.L. 1990. Partulidae: catalog of species. Tryonia 19(i): 1-96.
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