Pacific island land snails are among the most imperiled animals on Earth, which elevates
the practical conservation importance of their systematics and biogeography. The …

Pacific island land snails exhibit exceptionally high species diversity, morphological
diversity, and endemism. Species within superfamily Punctoidea, which contains the …

The Pacificellinae are a group of small, high-spired land snails distributed on islands across
the Pacific. Some species are endemic to particular island groups, but others have wide …

Partulid land snails of the genus Samoana inhabiting the Marquesas Islands of French
Polynesia exist as two distinct types, the 'thick-shelled'and 'thin-shelled'species. The two …

Adaptive radiation of partulid land snails in the tropical Pacific has produced an
extraordinary array of distinctive morphological, ecological and behavioural types. Here we …

Conservation laws often apply at the level of “species,” yet species designations in many
taxa were made using qualitative descriptions of a small number of morphological …

The endemic diplommatinid land snails (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) of Belau (Republic of
Palau, Micronesia) are an exceptionally diverse group of largely undescribed species …

The giant edible Placostylus snails of New Caledonia occur across a wide range of
environmental conditions, from the dry southwest to the wetter central and northeastern …

The land snail faunas on islands of the tropical Pacific exhibit spectacular evolutionary
radiations (Cowie, 1996), although they are dominated by relatively few families. Despite …

The door snail species complex Charpentieria itala is widely distributed in the Southern Alps
and subdivided into several morphologically differentiated subspecies. Thus, it can be used …