Critically Endangered
Achatinella taeniolata
Achatinella taeniolata
Achatinella taeniolata is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The dextral shell is ovate-oblong, spiro-conic, solid, striatulate. The shell is more obsolete toward the apex and with slightly convex whorls. Shell colors are glossy white ornamented with varying brown bands.
The height of the shell is 20.0 mm.
Range and habitat
This species is endemic to the Hawaiian island of O`ahu.
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
This species is critically endangered.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Achatinella taeniolata 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 taeniolata, Wikidata item Q3319461. 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.
