Carelia paradoxa

Carelia paradoxa
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 2.3) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Amastridae
Genus:	Carelia
Species:	†C. paradoxa
Binomial name
†Carelia paradoxa C. M. Cooke & Y. Kondo, 1952

Carelia paradoxa was a species of small, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae. ^[2]

This species was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. It became extinct in the first half of the 20th century. ^{[3] [4]}

References

1. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Carelia paradoxa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T3890A10154081. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T3890A10154081.en . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carelia paradoxa waipouliensis C. M. Cooke & Y. Kondo, 1952". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
3. 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.
4. 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.

• 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. Vol. 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.