Critically Endangered
Achatinella fulgens
Achatinella fulgens
Achatinella fulgens is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The snail is described as having a long and glossy cone-shaped shell that is ivory-colored. The ivory-colored shell is also described as featuring belts of various colors, among them "cloudy-gray, mahogany or ebony".
Range and habitat
This specific species of Achatinella is endemic to the southern Koʻolau Range of Oahu. The species is arboreal in the wild, as its natural habitat lies within Oahu's guava forests at lower elevations. In 2016, a landslide destroyed the last known habitat of this species.
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 fulgens 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 fulgens, Wikidata item Q3319363. 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.
