Critically Endangered
Achatinella swiftii
Achatinella swiftii
Achatinella swiftii is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
(Original description) The shell is ventricose and tapers to a sharply pointed apex. As the shell develops, it enlarges gradually through the first four whorls before expanding very rapidly, such that the final two whorls constitute the majority of the entire structure. This tubercle projects prominently into the aperture and, along with the interior of the outer lip, is often tinged with a delicate pink or brown.
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to 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
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Achatinella swiftii 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 swiftii, Wikidata item Q308142. 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.
