Partula rosea Broderip, 1832
Rosy tree snail, Areho, Tarona tree snail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct in the wild
Last record: before 2000
IUCN RedList status: Extinct in the Wild
Distribution
Huahine, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Broderip, W.J. 1832. New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and in the islands of the South Pacific Ocean. Proc. Comm. Sci. Corr. Zool. Soc. Lond. 2: 124-126.
Other references:
Coote, Trevor. (2009). Partula rosea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T16293A5597827. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16293A5597827.en. Downloaded on 12 November 2015.
Coote, Trevor 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
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.
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