Partula aurantia Crampton, 1932
Orange tree-snail, Moorean viviparous tree snail, Golden Moorean tree snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1980's or before
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Crampton, H. E. (1932). Studies on the variation, distribution, and evolution of the genus Partula. The species inhabiting Moorea. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ. 410: 1-335.
Other references:
Clarke, Bryan, Murray, James and Johnson, Michael S. (1984). The Extinction of Endemic Species by a Program of Biological Control. Pacific Science 38(2): 97-104.
Coote, T. (2009a). Partula aurantia. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 27 July 2013.
Coote, T. 2009b. Partula aurantia. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16272A5594615. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16272A5594615.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.
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. (2014). Diet of the Partula species of Moorea. The Partula Pages: report 1.
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.
Murray, J., Murray, E., Johnson, M. S. and Clarke, B. C. (1988). The Extinction of Partula on Moorea. Pacific Science 42(3-4): 150-153.
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(1): 1-96.
Smith, Donal et al. (2023). Extinct in the wild: The precarious state of Earth’s most threatened group of species. Science 379(6634): eadd2889. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add2889
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