Samoan Land Snails
Identification Guide (data last revised 29 June 2001)
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Samoan Land Snails
Identification Guide (data last revised 29 June 2001) |
Use this image-based identification guide to help identify Samoan land snails.
Species: Samoana thurstoni (Cooke & Crampton, 1930)
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| Distribution: | Ofu. |
| Natural Range: | Samoa. |
| Status: | Endemic. |
| Habitat: | Forest near the summit and on the upper slopes of Ofu. |
| Adult Size: | Height, 19 mm; width, 12 mm. |
| Identification: | Differs from Eua zebrina, the only other partulid on Ofu, by having a greenish-yellow shell with no transverse patterning. |
| Remarks: | Very few individuals have ever been seen. Undoubtedly severely threatened. Listed as a candidate for endangered/threatened status by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1994; now listed as a "species of concern". Listed as threatened by IUCN in 1996. |