Achatinella mustelina

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• Description
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• Notes

Overview

Critically Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Taxonomy

Similar Species

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

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 130.
• A catalogue of the shells, arranged according to the Lamarckian system: with their authorities, synonymes, and references to works where figured or described: together with a supplement containing additional species, corrections, and alterations / contained in the collection of John C. Jay. New York: Craighead, 1852. url p. 215.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 138 1969 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url appendices, p. 506-521, page 506.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 11.
• Catalogue of the terrestrial shells in the collection of William A. Haines. New York, The New York Printing Company, 1868. url p. 62.
• Check list of Hawaiian land and fresh water Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1928. url p. 25.
• Checklist of fish and invertebrates listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 190, p. 20.
• Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals / by Lovell Augustus Reeve. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1843-1878. url p. 71, p. 74.
• Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Alan Solem. ..; [collab.] Barbara K. Solem. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1976. url p. 500.
• Fauna hawaiiensis; Cambridge, Eng., The University press, 1913. url p. 301.
• Fauna hawaiiensis; being the land-fauna of the Hawaiian islands. by various authors, 1899-1913. Cambridge [Eng.]: The University press, 1913. url p. 301, p. 301.
• Hand list of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by Geoffrey Nevill. Calcutta, Printed by order of the trustees, 1878-1884. url p. 153.
• Land snails from Hawaii, Christmas island, and Samoa / Honolulu, Hawaii: The Museum, 1928. url p. 34.
• Local races and clines in the marine gastropod Thais lamellosa Gmelin, a population study. Seattle, The Galliostoma Co., 1957. url p. 75.
• 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. 271, p. 271, p. 333, p. 333, p. 342, p. 342, p. 343, p. 343, p. 344, p. 344, p. 345, p. 345, p. 346, p. 346, p. 347, p. 347, p. 348, p. 348, p. 349, p. 349, p. 350, p. 350, p. 352, p. 352, p. 408, p. 408, p. 409, p. 409, p. 421, p. 421, p. 422, p. 422, p. 60, p.
• Mollusca, by E.R. Sykes with intercalations on anatomy by Lt.-Col. Godwin-Austen. [CambridgeUniversity Press]1900. url p. 301.
• 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. 90.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 33, p. 33, p. 33, p. 34, p. 35.
• Occasional papers on mollusks. 1 1949 Cambridge, Mass.: Dept. of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1945- url descr. of plate 27, page 222.
• Principles of animal ecology, by W. C. Allee [and others] Philadelphia, Saunders Co., 1949. url p. 610, p. 798.
• Proceedings. Edited for the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. by A.I. Oparin [and others]. London, Pergamon Press, 1959. url p. 674.
• Shells and sea life. 17 1985 Phoenix, AZ: Miranda Enterprises, url p. , p. 18.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 103 1943 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url table of contents, page 1, p. 189, p. 193, p. 203, p. 207, p. 21, p. 23.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 342.
• The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book IUCN url p. 167, p. 168, p. 170, p. 171, p. 25, p. 617.
• The Nautilus. Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc. url p. 107, p. 112, p. 150.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 21 1986 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 108.
• World Checklist of Fish and Invertebrates Listed in the CITES Appendices Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 22, p. 32.
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Notes

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 mustelina. 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 November 15, 2007:

• Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5755958
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16057900
• IUCN ID: 188390
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: IMGASN7250
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 175141

Footnotes

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

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