| Partula turgida | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Partuloidea |
| Family: | Partulidae |
| Genus: | Partula |
| Species: | †P. turgida |
| Binomial name | |
| †Partula turgida |
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†Partula turgida 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 died out in 1996, and is now extinct. P. turgida was being kept alive in captivity, when the population suffered a periodic crash caused by the microsporidian genus Steinhausia. This is the first definitive report of an extinction of a species caused by a parasite.[2]