Partula mooreana

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| name = Moorean viviparous tree snail

| image =Partula mooreana marwell2.JPG

| status = EW | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Coote, T. |date=2009 |title=Partula mooreana |volume=2009 |page=e.T16278A5595708 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16278A5595708.en |access-date=17 November 2021}}

| taxon = Partula mooreana

| authority = W. D. Hartman, 1880Hartman W. D. (1880). "Description of a Partula supposed to be new, from the island Moorea". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofacad32acad 32]: [https://archive.org/stream/proceedingsofacad32acad#page/228/mode/2up 229].

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Partula mooreana, common name the Moorean viviparous tree snail, 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.

Original description

Partula mooreana was originally described by William Dell Hartman (1817–1899) in 1880. Hartman's original text (the type description) reads as follows:

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Partula Mooreana, Hartman.

Shell sinistral, ovate, elongate, thin, translucent, pale yellowish

horn-color, apex darker; whorls 5, flatly convex, body whorl, with

or without from one to three narrow, pale, brown revolving bands;

surface smooth, with fine, oblique striations, which are decussated

by crowded waved spiral striae; a narrow white line beneath the

suture; aperture hearly half the length of the shell, lip white,

moderately reflected, pillar tooth oval, prominent, situated nearest

the superior angle, umbilicus open, moderately compressed.

Length 18 mill., diameter 9 mill.

Hab. — Vaianai Valley, Island of Moorea (Andrew Garrett, Esq.).

In one hundred and forty-six species and varieties of Partula

represented in my collection, this shell possesses constant and

well-marked specific characters. Mr. Garrett informs me that

fifteen hundred specimens were all sinistral and dentate. The

surface of the shell resembles P. spadicea and varieties from

Moorea in possessing the thickly crowded waved spiral striae.

This species is arboreal, and is not uncommon on bushes, in

Vaianai Valley, the metropolis of P. vexillum Pse. = P. stenostoma Ph.

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References

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