Endangered
Partulina mighelsiana
Partulina mighelsiana
Partulina mighelsiana is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
This snail species has a striped shell that consists of different shades of brown, black, and white. Their body is a transparent brown color.
Range and habitat
Partulina mighelsiana is found in very small and fragmented populations. It is terrestrial and is found in trees, trunks, stems, and leaves that have fungi. This species is endemic to Moloka'i, Hawaii in the United States.
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
Partulina mighelsiana is 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 Partulina mighelsiana, Wikidata item Q3317816. 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.
