Partula dentifera

{{Short description|Extinct species of gastropod}}

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| status = EX

| status_system = IUCN3.1

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| taxon = Partula dentifera

| authority = Pfeiffer, 1852

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• Partula callifera L. Pfeiffer, 1857
• Partula candida H. E. Crampton, 1956
• Partula cedista H. E. Crampton, 1956
• Partula citrina Pease, 1866
• Partula formosa Garrett, 1884
• Partula imperforata Garrett, 1884

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Partula dentifera is an extinct species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. This species was endemic to the Raiatea in the Society Islands of French Polynesia, where the last live individual was seen in 1972. It was officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in June 2024.{{cite iucn |author=Gerlach, J. |year=2024 |title=Partula dentifera |volume=2024 |page=e.T103142760A103142935 |doi= |access-date=28 June 2024}}

Like many other snails of the Society Islands, its extinction can be attributed to the introduction of the rosy wolfsnail (Euglandina rosea){{Cite web |date=27 June 2024 |title=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/search/stats?taxonomies=100010&searchType=species |access-date=28 June 2024}}