Partula rosea
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Partula rosea is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.[1]
Description
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Uses
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The shell of this species was used to make lei, like Partula varia from the same island.
Distribution
This species was endemic to Huahine, French Polynesia. It was extinct in the wild, only existing in captivity.[2]
Half the world's population of this snail was within one room at a zoo in the UK.[3] In 2019 the species was reintroduced to the wild on Huahine.[4]
References
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- ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Partula rosea Broderip, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=957016 on 2021-12-14
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- ↑ (22 February 2008). "The little snail in big trouble". The Daily Telegraph, accessed 25 February 2014.
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- Gerlach J. (2016). Icons of evolution: Pacific Island tree-snails of the family Partulidae. Phelsuma Press. Template:ISBN
External links
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- 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. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London. 2: 124-126
- Pfeiffer, L. (1857). Descriptions of fifty-eight new species of Helicea from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 24 (321)