Endodonta kalaeloana

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Hi !

familiy: Endodontidae

Endodonta kalaeloana from O'ahu / Hawai'i Islands

anotherspecialist said:

Almost all of the species in the genus Endodonta should be included on the Red List. They are probably all Extinct. However, as there is no recent survey information available to confirm this, the species is left as Critically Endangered.

www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php?species=40717

[another specialist]

Synonym/s Endodonta sp. (Ancey 1889)
Taxonomic Notes Was included in the 1996 Red List as Endodonta sp. - meant to be a generic listing. All the species, need to be included, but only this one is included here for now as an example. They are probably all Extinct. The missing species need to be added to the Red List.

Red List Category & Criteria CR B1+2abd ver 2.3 (1994)
Year Assessed 2000
Assessor/s Cowie, R.H.
Evaluator/s Seddon, M.B. (Mollusc Red List Authority)
Justification Almost all of the species in the genus Endodonta should be included on the Red List. They are probably all Extinct. However, as there is no recent survey information available to confirm this, the species is left as Critically Endangered. It seems that most of the species disappeared in the 1930s as a result of expanding human activities and large-scale habitat destruction on the Hawaiian islands. The introduction of predatory fire ants has also not helped the species. This species was only known from Kauai.
History 1994 - Endangered as Endodonta sp. (Groombridge 1994)
1996 - Critically Endangered as Endodonta sp. (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php?species=40717&tab=all

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Christensen, Carl C. and Kirch, Patrick V. (1986). Nonmarine Mollusks and Ecological Change at Barbers Point, O'ahu, Hawai'i. Bishop Museum Occasional papers 26: 52-80.