Achatinella abbreviata
| Achatinella abbreviata | |
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| A live Achatinella abbreviata in 2008 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Achatinellidae |
| Genus: | Achatinella |
| Subgenus: | Bulimella |
| Species: | †A. abbreviata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Achatinella abbreviata Reeve, 1850
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| Location of Oʻahu | |
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Achatinella abbreviata, an Oʻahu tree snail, is an extinct species of colorful tropical tree-living air-breathing land snail, an arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the genus Achatinella.
Shell description
[edit]The dextral shell is ovate and somewhat ventricose with convex whorls margined round the upper shell. The shell has six whorls. The spire is rather short and obtuse at the apex. The columella is callous and twisted. Olive-yellow, with a black-brown line at the sutures; the lower part of the last whorl is very dark green and the apex is black.[2]
The height of the shell is 19.0 mm. The width of the shell is 10.0 mm.[2]
Distribution
[edit]This species was endemic to the Hawaiʻian island of Oʻahu.
Conservation status
[edit]This species is considered to be extinct. The IUCN Red List first listed it extinct in 1990.[1] A single live snail was found in 2008. However when the site was returned to a Euglandina rosea snail had arrived and the A. abbreviata snail could not be located. This was the last sighting of A . abbreviata, and it is almost certainly extinct.[3]
References
[edit]This article incorporates public domain text (a public domain work of the United States Government) from reference.[2]
- ^ a b Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Achatinella abbreviata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T167A13037866. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T167A13037866.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ a b c U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (1992) Recovery Plan for the O’ahu Tree Snails of the Genus Achatinella. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon, 64 pp. + 64 pp. of appendices + 5 figures. PDF
- ^ "Achatinella abbreviata in the Koolau Mountains". HawaiianForest.
External links
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