Carelia turricula

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Carelia turricula
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Carelia turricula shell
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Amastridae
Genus: Carelia
Species:
C. turricula
Binomial name
Carelia turricula
(Mighels, 1845)
Synonyms [2] [3]
  • Achatina turriculaMighels, 1845 [4]
  • Spiraxis (?) turriculaPfeiffer, 1853 [5]
  • Carelia turriculaPease, 1871 [6]
  • Achatina obeliscusReeve, 1849 [7]
  • Achatina newcombiPfeiffer, 1851 [8]
  • Carelia cockleaGulick, 1905 [9]

Carelia turricula are an extinct species of small, air-breathing, land snail, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae. [1]

This species was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). "Carelia turricula". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996: e.T3896A10154389. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T3896A10154389.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. Caum, Edward L. (1928). Check List of Hawaiian Land and Fresh Water Mollusca. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. Vol. 56. Honolulu. p. 38.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Cooke, Jr., C. Montague (1931). "Carelia turricula (Mighels)". The Land Snail Genus Carelia (PDF). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. Vol. 85. Honolulu. pp. 59–65.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. Mighels, J. W. (1845). "Descriptions of Shells from the Sandwich Islands, and other localities". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 20.
  5. Pfeiffer, Ludovico (1853). "Sp.? turricula Migh.". Monographia heliceorm viventium. Vol. 3. Lipsia: F. A. Brockhaus. p. 261.
  6. Pease, W. Harper (1871). "Catalogue of the Land-shells inhabiting Polynesia, with Remarks on their Synonymy, Distribution, and Variation, and Descriptions of New Genera and Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1871: 473. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1871.tb00478.x.
  7. Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1849). "Achatina obeliscus". Monograph of the Genus Achatina. Conchologia iconica. Vol. 5. London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve. Pl. 23, Fig 129.
  8. Pfeiffer, L. (1851). "Description of Fifty-four New Species of Helicea, from the Collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 19: 262.
  9. Gulick, John T. (1905). Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal. Washington: Carnegie Institute of Washington. p. 38; Pl. 1, Fig. 1.

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