Carelia turricula

Carelia turricula are an extinct species of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Amastridae and superfamily Cochlicopoidea.[1]

Carelia turricula
Carelia turricula shell.
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 2.3)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:	Cochlicopoidea
Family:	Amastridae
Genus:	Carelia
Species:	†C. turricula
Binomial name
†Carelia turricula (Mighels, 1845)
Synonyms[2][3]
Achatina turricula Mighels, 1845[4] Spiraxis (?) turricula Pfeiffer, 1853[5] Carelia turricula Pease, 1871[6] Achatina obeliscus Reeve, 1849[7] Achatina newcombi Pfeiffer, 1851[8] Carelia cocklea Gulick, 1905[9]

This species was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.[1]

References

1. Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Carelia turricula. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
2. Caum, Edward L. (1928). Check List of Hawaiian Land and Fresh Water Mollusca. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 56. Honolulu. p. 38.
3. Cooke, Jr., C. Montague (1931). "Carelia turricula (Mighels)". The Land Snail Genus Carelia (PDF). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 85. Honolulu. pp. 59–65.
4. Mighels, J. W. (1845). "Descriptions of Shells from the Sandwich Islands, and other localities". Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 20.
5. Pfeiffer, Ludovico (1853). "Sp.? turricula Migh.". Monographia heliceorm viventium. 3. Lipsia: F. A. Brockhaus. p. 261.
6. Pease, W. Harper (1871). "Catalogue of the Land-shells inhabiting Polynesia, with Remarks on their Synonymy, Distribution, and Variation, and Descriptions of New Genera and Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1871: 473. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1871.tb00478.x.
7. Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1849). "Achatina obeliscus". Monograph of the Genus Achatina. Conchologia iconica. 5. London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve. Sp. 129; Pl. 23, Fig 129.
8. Pfeiffer, L. (1851). "Description of Fifty-four New Species of Helicea, from the Collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 19: 262.
9. Gulick, John T. (1905). Evolution, Racial and Habitudinal. Washington: Carnegie Institute of Washington. p. 38; Pl. 1, Fig. 1.

Further reading

• Pfeiffer, Ludovico (1848). "A. turricula Mighels". Monographia heliceorm viventium. 2. Lipsia: F. A. Brockhaus. p. 261.
• Kobelt, W. "Conchologische Miscellen". Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 2: 225; Pl. 7, Fig. 1.
• Ancey, C.-F. (1893). "Études sur la faune malacologique des îles Sandwich (I)". Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 6: 326.
• Pilsbry, Henry A.; Cooke, C. Montague (1915). "Anatomy of the Amastridæ". Appendix to Amastridæ. Tornatellinidæ. Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata. 23. Philadelphia: Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. p. 65; P. 17, Fig. 2.
• Hyatt, Alpheus; Pilsbry, Henry A. (1911). "Carelia". Achatinellidæ (Amastridæ). Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata. 21. Philadelphia: Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. pp. 103–104; Pl. 19, Fig. 1.
• Hyatt, Alpheus; Pilsbry, Henry A. (1911). "Carelia". Achatinellidæ (Amastridæ). Manual of Conchology. Second Series: Pulmonata. 21. Philadelphia: Conchological Department, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. pp. 103–105; Pl. 19, Figs. 1, 4–6, 7–8