Critically Endangered
Provanna segonzaci
Provanna segonzaci
Provanna segonzaci is a gastropod in the family Provannidae, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The gastropod
Gastropods are snails and slugs. The animal is the soft body; the shell, when present, is grown, not worn like a stone.
Range and habitat
This marine species occurs in hydrothermal vents off the Valufa Ridge, southeast of Fiji.
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
Provanna segonzaci 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 Provanna segonzaci — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q7252306. 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.
