Extinct in the Wild
Partula mooreana
Partula mooreana
Partula mooreana is a tree snail in the family Partulidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Extinct in the Wild.
The tree snail
Description Partula mooreana was originally described by William Dell Hartman (1817–1899) in 1880.
Range and habitat
This species was endemic to French Polynesia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Partula snails graze micro-algae and fungi on leaves at night. They do not recover once a predator snail is established on the island.
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
It is now extinct in the wild.
The rosy wolfsnail and habitat clearing are the documented wrecking ball for Partula on Pacific islands.
Partula mooreana is Extinct in the Wild 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 Partula mooreana, Wikidata item Q2707622. 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.
