Partula aurantia

Partula aurantia
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Partuloidea
Family: Partulidae
Genus: Partula
Species: P. aurantia
Binomial name
Partula aurantia
Crampton, 1932[2]

Partula aurantia, common name the Moorean viviparous tree snail, was a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. This species was endemic to French Polynesia. It is now extinct.

References

  1. ^ Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Partula aurantia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  2. ^ Crampton H. E. (1932). Studies on the variation, distribution and evolution of the genus Partula. The species inhabiting Moorea. Carnegie Institution of Washington 410: 1-335. 54-63.