Critically Endangered
Achatinella byronii
Achatinella byronii
Achatinella byronii is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The dextral or sinistral shell is imperforate and pyramidal-conic. Solid and glossy with an obtuse apex. Shell color varies, but is typically green and light greenish-yellow in oblique streaks on the last two whorls, with a faint green peripheral band and a dark chestnut band bordering the suture below. The preceding whorl is yellow with a chestnut band and the three embryonic whorls are pinkish gray.
The height of the shell is 20.0 mm.
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to Oahu, in the Hawaiian Islands.
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
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Achatinella byronii 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 byronii, Wikidata item Q3319348. 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.
