Critically Endangered
Achatinella bulimoides
Achatinella bulimoides
Achatinella bulimoides is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The dextral or sinistral shell is ovate-oblong and subventricose. The shell is similar in form to Achatinella livida, but the spire is less thickened and more pointed at the apex. The color is whitish with chestnut bands, and the apex is pale brown.
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to Oahu, Hawaii.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Snails move on a single foot and feed with a rasping tongue. Island and spring species rarely recolonise once the site is emptied.
In crisis
Achatinella bulimoides is a special case, as it is so rare it is now believed to be extinct in the wild.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Achatinella bulimoides is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Achatinella bulimoides, Wikidata item Q308587. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
