Aaadonta angaurana

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Aaadonta angaurana

family: Endodontidae

for red list entry see here:

www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/3/all

was not found during the field search in 2005, see here.

www.palau.biodiv-chm.org/upload/BelauLandSnailsRundell.pdf

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... the red list says it is native to Palau and reginally extinct in Mauritius !!!

www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/3/0

Sadly someone copied this error into Wikipedia, and I bet it will never ever dissappear from there ....

(... actually I deleted it at Wikipedia, also wrote a message to the red list team, but I fear nothing will happen ....)

edit:

The other species of this genus are called slugs at Wikipedia ....

[Melanie]

Well, i've corrected the Wikipedia article following your review.

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You really seem to like this Wikipedia project.

Many people seem just to copy things from somewhere into Wikipedia whithout checking if they are correct or not, this is very sad.

[surroundx]

The historical geographic range of this species was less than 8 km2 of the heavily modified island of Angaur (Ngeaur), Palau. The species was probably historically more abundant prior to its collection at only a single locality in 1936. Indeed, substantial change had already occurred on that island by that time. No specimens have been found after surveying its island habitat in 2005 (R.J. Rundell 2005, unpublished data, Rundell 2010).

No information on population size or trends is available, although the species was probably historically more abundant prior to its collection at only a single locality in 1936.

www.iucnredlist.org/species/3/2932256#population

[alexanderlang]

I recently talked to David Bullis, who studies this genus in Palau, all except one are still alive! 

"A. angaurana is a tricky one because I was unable to collect live specimens of this species last year in the field but I had a limited time on the only island it is known from (Angaur) to do so. I did find a shell from a fairly recently dead individual so I'm am unconvinced that it is extinct yet but it is certainly critically endangered."