Endangered
Partulina proxima
Partulina proxima
Partulina proxima is a land snail in the family Achatinellidae (order Stylommatophora), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Its polymorphic shells are 0.85 mn in length. The species has a smooth shell, that may aid in protection and movement across leaf surfaces.
P. Proxima is 1.5–2.0 cm in length and weighs less than 1 gram.
Range and habitat
P. Proxima is found only on the island of Moloka'i, Hawai'i. It inhabits humid, tropical forests with consistent rainfall, typically at mid-elevations. The species is arboreal, living on the branches of trees and shrubs instead of the forest floor.
It is listed by NatureServe as critically imperiled.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The species is nocturnal, feeding and moving during the night to avoid dry and dehydrated spaces.
In crisis
P. Proxima is endangered by climate change, habitat destruction, and invasive species. This species is conserved through the Snail extinction prevention program.
Partulina proxima 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 proxima, Wikidata item Q4859647. 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.
