Carelia paradoxa
| Carelia paradoxa | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Cochlicopoidea |
| Family: | Amastridae |
| Genus: | Carelia |
| Species: | †C. paradoxa |
| Binomial name | |
| †Carelia paradoxa | |
†Carelia paradoxa was a species of small, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Amastridae and superfamily Cochlicopoidea.
This species was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. It became extinct in the first half of the 20th century.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Niles Eldredge, Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis, Princeton Univ. Press 2000, ISBN 0691050090; p. 197, giving 1930 as the last recorded date.
- ↑ Bruce A. Stein, Lynn S. Kutner, Jonathan S. Adams: Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States, Oxford Univ. Press 2000, ISBN 0195125193; p. 333 giving "pre-1945" for the last record.
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Carelia paradoxa. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
- Zimmerman, Elwood Curtin (1 March 2001) [1947]. "Chapter 4 Development of the endemic fauna". Volume 1 - Introduction - With a New Preface and Dedication. Insects of Hawaii. 1. new foreword by James K. Liebherr and short biography of the author by James O. Juvik (illustrated, reissued, with a new preface and dedication ed.). Hawaii, USA: University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 134–136. ISBN 978-0-8248-2427-3. OCLC 313815991. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
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