Tanousia zrmanjae

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Tanousia zrmanjae (Brusina)

family: Lithoglyphidae

a freshwater snail from the Balkan region; almost for sure extinct now

source:

C. Régnier; B. Fontaine; P. Bouchet: Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214–1221. 2009

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This genus contains several species, all of which are extinct - however, I'm not sure if they represent Holocene species or maybe Pleistocene species.

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Nov 30, 2013 17:20:40 GMT @noisi said:

source:

C. Régnier; B. Fontaine; P. Bouchet: Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions. Conservation Biology 23(5): 1214–1221. 2009

Available online:

faculty.umb.edu/anamarija.frankic/eeos476/Class%20Materials/Habitats/mollusk%20extinction%20article.pdf

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Listed as Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) by the IUCN:

www.iucnredlist.org/details/summary/155570/0

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This species has been rediscovered:

Beran, Luboš, Hofman, Sebastian and Falniowski, Andrzej. (2015). Tanousia zrmanjae (Brusina, 1866) (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea: Hydrobiidae): a living fossil. Folia Malacologica 23(4): 263-271.

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Listed twice by (Cowie et al., 2017), under both table A1 and A4.

Cowie, Robert H., Régnier, Claire, Fontaine, Benoît, and Bouchet, Philippe. (2017). Measuring the Sixth Extinction: what do mollusks tell us? The Nautilus 131(1): 3-41.