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Partula garrettii Pease, 1865

Iareta tree snail

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Partula garretti Pease, 1865

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1992 (Coote, 2009)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Extinct in the Wild according to (Cowiet et al., 2017).

 

Distribution

Raiatea, Society Islands, French Polynesia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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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. (2009). Partula garretti. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 August 2013.

Coote, T. 2009. Partula garretti. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16312A5600237. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16312A5600237.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

Coote, Trevor and Loève, Éric. (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.

Dalrymple, S. E., Abeli, T., Ewen, J. G., Gilbert, T. C., Hogg, C. J., Lloyd, N. A., Moehrenschlager, A., Rodríguez, J. P. and Smith, D. (2023). Addressing Threats and Ecosystem Intactness to Enable Action for Extinct in the Wild Species. Diversity 15: 268. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020268

Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît and Bouchet, Philippe. (2009). Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214-1221.

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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