| Partula faba | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Partuloidea |
| Family: | Partulidae |
| Genus: | Partula |
| Species: | P. faba |
| Binomial name | |
| Partula faba (Gmelin, 1791) |
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Partula faba is 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 in the wild (in other words it does not exist as a wild species any more, only in captivity).
UK zoos are now fighting to save this species from extinction. Bristol Zoo has been entrusted with the last-known colony of these snails. [1]