Aaadonta pelewana

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Aaadonta pelewana

family: Endodontidae

sebbe67 said:

last recorded 1981, a unconfirmed report of three fresh shells collected by a Japanese expedtition in 1995, needs to be confirmed

for red list entry see here:

www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/8/all

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

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

[surroundx]

The historical geographic range of this species is unknown, due to several collections from unspecified Palau islands, but included the islands of Koror (Oreor) and Peleliu (Beliliou) which have an areas less than 19 km2 (Solem 1976). No specimens were recovered in recent surveys of Palau (Rundell 2010, Rundell 2007, unpublished data).

This is a minute ground-dwelling snail for which no specimens have been found recently, despite surveys of the islands in 2003, 2005 and 2007 (Rundell 2010). The species was previously known only from Peleliu and Koror, and was described based on seven museum specimens, all of which were collected prior to World War II (Solem 1976).

www.iucnredlist.org/species/8/3148704#population

[alexanderlang]

David Bullis:

"A. pelewana - I've never collected a specimen of this species and to my knowledge no one has since the holotype over 70 years ago. Its type locality is just "Palau" so we don't even know where to look for it. Its larger size should make it more obvious than the others but I am most pessimistic about this species."

So this one may be extinct, but that is not known for sure.