Aaadonta angaurana

Aaadonta angaurana

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Endodontidae
Genus: Aaadonta
Species:
A. angaurana
Binomial name
Aaadonta angaurana
Solem, 1976

Aaadonta angaurana is a small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Endodontidae.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Angaur in the Palau Islands, as all members of the genus Aaadonta are endemic to Palau.[2][3] It is known only from one locality, where it was last found in 1936. None have been found recently (As of 2012) and they may be extinct.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Rundell (2012).
  2. ^ Solem & Solem (1976), p. 472.
  3. ^ Gärdenfors & Stattersfield (1996), p. 214.

Works cited

  • Gärdenfors, Ulf; Stattersfield, A. J. (1996). Red List of Threatened Animals. ISBN 9782831703350.
  • Rundell, R.J. (2012). "Aaadonta angaurana". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. IUCN: e.T3A2932256. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T3A2932256.en. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  • Solem, Alan; Solem, Barbara K. (1976). Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra), Part 1: Family Endodontidae. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2554. OCLC 30717826.
  • Solem, Alan (1982). Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca : Pulmonata : Sigmurethra), Part 2: Families Punctidae and Charopidae, zoogeography. Chicago, Ill.: Field museum of Natural History. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.2553. OCLC 34699764.


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