Critically Endangered
Achatinella curta
Achatinella curta
Achatinella curta is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The shell of adults has five whorls and can be either dextral or sinistral. Their shell has a color scheme of polished yellow or chestnut with a plain or black sutural band, rarely with two or more on the last whorl.
Adults of Achatinella curta can get 21.4 mm long and 10.3 mm wide.
Range and habitat
Achatinella curta is endemic in the island of Oahu of the Hawaiian Islands. Achatinella curta are found on trees. This species is endemic to 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
Achatinella curta is classified as critically endangered.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Achatinella curta 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 curta, Wikidata item Q308619. 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.
