Critically Endangered
Achatinella viridans
Achatinella viridans
Achatinella viridans is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The dextral shell is elongate-conic, imperforate with convex whorls and a slightly impressed line below the suture. The color is green with light streaks intermixed. The aperture is subovate and stained with a pink color just within the margin.
The height of the shell is 19.2 mm. The width of the shell is 12.0 mm.
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 viridans 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 viridans, Wikidata item Q308342. 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.
