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Achatinella apexfulva

(Oahu Treesnail)

Overview

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Critically Endangered

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Oahu Treesnail, Pupu Kuahiwi

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia () - Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
    - Branch: Protostomia () - Grobben, 1908
      - Infrakingdom: Lophotrochozoa ()
        Superphylum: Eutrochozoa ()
        Phylum: Mollusca () - (Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795 - Molluscs
        Class: Gastropoda () - Cuvier, 1795 - Snails and Slugs
        Subclass: Orthogastropoda () - Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
        Superorder: Heterobranchia () - J.e. Gray, 1840
        Order: Pulmonata () - Cuvier, in Blainville, 1814
        Suborder: Eupulmonata () - (Haszprunar & Huber, 1990)
        Infraorder: Stylommatophora () - A. Schmidt, 1855
        Superfamily: Achatinelloidea () - Gulick, 1873
        Family: Achatinellidae () - Gulick, 1873
        Genus: Achatinella ()
        Specific name: apexfulva - (Dixon, 1789)
        Scientific name: - Achatinella apexfulva (Dixon, 1789)

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Achatinella

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 245 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. a · A. abbreviata (Oahu Treesnail) · A. abbreviata bacca · A. adusta · A. affinis · A. albescens · A. albolabris · A. ampla · A. analoga · A. aperepulva · A. apexfulva (Oahu Treesnail) · A. apexfulva aloha · A. apexfulva apicata · A. apexfulva beata · A. apexfulva cerrixnivea · A. apexfulva cestus (Oahu Treesnail) · A. apexfulva chromatacme · A. apexfulva form · A. apexfulva leucorraphe (Oahu Treesnail) · A. apexfulva tuberans · A. apexfulva vittata (Oahu Treesnail) · A. apicata · A. aplustre · A. assimilis · A. augusta · A. bacca · A. bellula (Oahu Treesnail) · A. bellula multizonata · A. bicolor · A. bilineata · A. bryonii · A. buddi · A. buddii (Oahu Treesnail) · A. budii · A. bulienoides · A. bulimoides (Oahu Treesnail) · A. bulimoides elegans (Oahu Treesnail) · A. bulimoides mistera · A. bulimoides mistura · A. bulimoides obliqua · A. bulimoides rosea (Oahu Treesnail) · A. bulimoides spadicea · A. byroni · A. byronii (Oahu Treesnail) · A. caesia (Oahu Treesnail) · A. candida · A. casta (Oahu Treesnail) · A. castanea · A. castra · A. cestus · A. cestus besiani · A. cinnamomea · A. cistus · A. clementina · A. cognata · A. colorata · A. comcavospira · A. concavospira (Oahu Treesnail) · A. concavospira griseizona · A. concavospira turbiniformis · A. concavospirs · A. concuvospira · A. conformis · A. coniformis · A. consanguinea · A. corrugata · A. crassa · A. crassidentata · A. curta (Oahu Treesnail) · A. cyclostoma · A. decipiens (Oahu Treesnail) · A. decipiens kaliuwaaensis · A. decora (Oahu Treesnail) · A. delta · A. dimorpha (Oahu Treesnail) · A. dimorphaA. · A. dimorpha albescens · A. diversa · A. dolium · A. dubia · A. dunkeri · A. elegans · A. elegans wheatleyana · A. faba · A. ferussaci · A. flava · A. flavida · A. forbesiana · A. formosa · A. frickei · A. fuisoror · A. fulgans · A. fulgens (Oahu Treesnail) · A. fulgens ampla · A. fulgens versipellis · A. fulgens vespellis · A. fumosa · A. fuscobasis (Oahu Treesnail) · A. fuscobasis lyonsiana · A. fuscobasis wilderi

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Further Reading

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Abbott, R.T., 1989, Compendium of Landshells, pg.58.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 182.
Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Local races and clines in the marine gastropod Thais lamellosa Gmelin, a population study. Seattle, The Galliostoma Co., 1957. ENG url p. 6.
Manual of conchology, structural and systematic: with illustrations of the species. by George W. Tryon, Jr. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1885-1935. ENG url p. 117, p. 274, p. 275, p. 307, p. 308, p. 317, p. 318, p. 319, p. 320, p. 321, p. 322, p. 323, p. 324, p. 325, p. 326, p. 327, p. 328, p. 329, p. 330, p. 417, p. 420.
New names introduced by H. A. Pilsbry in the Mollusca and Crustacea, by William J. Clench and Ruth D. Turner. [Philadelphia]Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1962. ENG url p. 18, p. 8.
Principles of animal ecology, by W. C. Allee [and others] Philadelphia, Saunders Co., 1949. ENG url p. 610, p. 798.
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 673.
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 100, p. 101, p. 103, p. 104, p. 105, p. 106, p. 107, p. 108, p. 109, p. 111, p. 112, p. 113, p. 115, p. 116, p. 117, p. 118, p. 119, p. 120, p. 121, p. 122, p. 123, p. 124, p. 125, p. 126, p. 127, p. 128, p. 129, p. 130, p. 131, p. 132, p. 133, p. 134, p. 135, p. 136, p. 137, p. 138, p. 139, p. 140, p. 141, p. 142, p. 143, p. 145, p. 146, p. 148, p. 149, p. 151, p. 152, p. 153, p. 155, p. 156, p. 157, p. 158, p. 159, p. 160, p. 161, p. 162, p. 163, p. 164, p. 165, p. 166, p. 167, p. 169, p. 171, p. 172, p. 173, p. 174, p. 175, p. 176, p. 177, p. 179, p. 180, p. 181, p. 182, p. 183, p. 184, p. 185, p. 186, p. 187, p. 188, p. 189, p. 191, p. 193, p. 195, p. 197, p. 199, p. 201, p. 203, p. 205, p. 207, p. 209, p. 211, p. 213, p. 215, p. 217, p. 219, p. 221, p. 223, p. 23, p. 25, p. 27, p. 28, p. 29, p. 30, p. 31, p. 32, p. 33, p. 34, p. 35, p. 36, p. 37, p. 38, p. 39, p. 40, p. 41, p. 42, p. 43, p. 44, p. 45, p. 46, p. 47, p. 48, p. 49, p. 51, p. 52, p. 53, p. 54, p. 55, p. 56, p. 57, p. 58, p. 59, p. 60, p. 61, p. 62, p. 63, p. 64, p. 65, p. 66, p. 67, p. 68, p. 69, p. 70, p. 71, p. 72, p. 73, p. 75, p. 77, p. 78, p. 79, p. 81, p. 83, p. 84, p. 85, p. 87, p. 88, p. 89, p. 90, p. 91, p. 93, p. 94, p. 95, p. 97, p. 98, p. 99.
The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, ENG url p. 342.
The Nautilus. [Melbourne, Fla., etc., American Malacologists, inc., etc.] ENG url p. 107, p. 46.
Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Notes

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Contributors

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 10, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
Hadfield, M. & Hadway, L. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 10, 2007:

Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5755914
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 16145063
IUCN ID: 168
Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: IMGASN7020
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 175181

Last Revised: 2009-09-18