Partula mooreana Hartman, 1880:229
Eimeo tree snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild
Last record: 1985 or later
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Distribution
Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hartman, W. D. 1880. Description of a Partula supposed to be new, from the island of Moorea. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 32: 229.
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. 2005. Surveys on Moorea, March – June 2005. The search for populations of endemic partulids. Unpublished report.
Coote, T. 2009. Partula mooreana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16278A5595708. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16278A5595708.en . Downloaded on 14 November 2015.
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.
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
Gouveia, Ana Rita Peres Cardoso. (2011). Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Population Dynamics of Captive Partula Snails. Thesis, Imperial College London. 123 pp.
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.
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