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Achatinella swiftii

Overview

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Critically Endangered

Interesting Facts

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Description

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Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
    - Branch: Protostomia () - Grobben, 1908
      - Infrakingdom: Lophotrochozoa ()
        Superphylum: Eutrochozoa ()
        Phylum: Mollusca () - (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795 - Molluscs
        Class: Gastropoda () - Cuvier, 1795 - Snails and Slugs
        Subclass: Orthogastropoda () - Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
        Superorder: Heterobranchia () - J.E. Gray, 1840
        Order: Stylommatophora () - Cuvier, in Blainville, 1814
        Suborder: Eupulmonata () - (Haszprunar & Huber, 1990)
        Infraorder: Stylommatophora () - A. Schmidt, 1855
        Superfamily: Achatinelloidea () - Gulick, 1873
        Family: Achatinellidae () - Gulick, 1873
        Genus: Achatinella () - Reeve, 1850
        Specific name: swiftii - Newcomb, 1853
        Scientific name: - Achatinella swiftii Newcomb, 1853

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Achatinella

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 40 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. abbreviata (Oahu Treesnail) · A. apexfulva (Oahu Treesnail) · A. apexfulva cestus (Oahu Treesnail) · A. apexfulva leucorraphe (Oahu Treesnail) · A. apexfulva vittata (Oahu Treesnail) · A. bellula (Oahu Treesnail) · A. buddii (Oahu Treesnail) · A. bulimoides (Oahu Treesnail) · A. bulimoides elegans (Oahu Treesnail) · A. bulimoides rosea (Oahu Treesnail) · A. byronii (Oahu Treesnail) · A. caesia (Oahu Treesnail) · A. casta (Oahu Treesnail) · A. concavospira (Oahu Treesnail) · A. curta (Oahu Treesnail) · A. decipiens (Oahu Treesnail) · A. decora (Oahu Treesnail) · A. dimorpha (Oahu Treesnail) · A. fulgens (Oahu Treesnail) · A. fuscobasis (Oahu Treesnail) · A. juddii (Oahu Treesnail) · A. juncea (Oahu Treesnail) · A. lehuiensis (Oahu Treesnail) · A. lila (Oahu Treesnail) · A. livida (Oahu Treesnail) · A. lorata (Oahu Treesnail) · A. mustelina (Oahu Treesnail) · A. papyracea (Oahu Treesnail) · A. phaeozona (Oahu Treesnail) · A. pulcherrima (Oahu Treesnail) · A. pupukanioe (Oahu Treesnail) · A. sowerbyana (Oahu Treesnail) · A. spaldingi (Oahu Treesnail) · A. stewartii (Oahu Treesnail) · A. taeniolata (Oahu Treesnail) · A. thaanumi (Oahu Treesnail) · A. turgida (Oahu Treesnail) · A. valida (Oahu Treesnail) · A. viridans (Oahu Treesnail) · A. vulpina (Oahu Treesnail)

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Further Reading

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1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 131.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 155 1996 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 206.
Check list of Hawaiian land and fresh water Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1928. url p. 21, p. 27.
Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 100.
Checklist of fish and invertebrates listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 21.
Fauna hawaiiensis; Cambridge, Eng., The University press, 1913. url p. 300.
Fauna hawaiiensis; being the land-fauna of the Hawaiian islands. by various authors, 1899-1913. Cambridge [Eng.]: The University press, 1913. url p. 300.
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species. by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1885-1935. url , p. 275, p. 275, p. 296, p. 302, p. 305, p. 305, p. 306, p. 306, p. 307, p. 307, p. 308, p. 308, p. 310, p. 310, p. 311, p. 311, p. 313, p. 313, p. 314, p. 314, p. 315, p. 316, p. 316, p. 317, p. 317, p. 324, p. 324, p. 327, p. 327, p. 337, p. 337, p. 408, p. 408, p. 419, p. 419, p. 420, p. 420, p. xviii.
Mollusca, by E.R. Sykes with intercalations on anatomy by Lt.-Col. Godwin-Austen. [CambridgeUniversity Press]1900. url p. 300.
New names introduced by H. A. Pilsbry in the Mollusca and Crustacea, by William J. Clench and Ruth D. Turner. [Philadelphia]Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1962. url p. 31.
Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 26, p. 26, p. 27, p. 27, p. 27, p. 29, p. 29, p. 30.
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 103 1943 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 108, p. 13, p. 130, p. 131, p. 132, p. 21, p. 84, p. 87.
The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book IUCN url p. 167, p. 168, p. 26, p. 617.
The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 130.
World Checklist of Fish and Invertebrates Listed in the CITES Appendices Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 23.

Notes

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Contributors

Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
Hadfield, M. & Hadway, L. 1996. Achatinella swiftii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 29January2012.
IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 10, 2007:

Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5755975
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16145242
IUCN ID: 188398
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1331

Footnotes

Hadfield, M. & Hadway, L. 1996. Achatinella swiftii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 January 2012. [back]

Last Revised: 2012-07-14