Background Partulid tree snails are endemic to Pacific high islands and have experienced
extraordinary rates of extinction in recent decades. Although they collectively range across a …

Abstract Eleven of eighteen Society Island Partula species endemic to the Windward Island
subgroup (Moorea and Tahiti) have been extirpated by an ill‐advised biological control …

Background The mass extirpation of the island of Moorea's endemic partulid tree snail
fauna, following the deliberate introduction of the alien predator Euglandina rosea …

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

The tree snail family Partulidae is widely distributed throughout the islands of Micronesia,
Melanesia and Polynesia, and most of the valid species are single-island endemics. In this …

Natural history museum collections provide a biodiversity window into the past and are of
particular importance to the study of extinction-impacted clades such as the Pacific Island …

Nonmarine molluscs are the major animal group with the greatest number of recorded
extinctions due to anthropogenic impacts, and that number is certainly a serious …

Background In island archipelagos, where islands have experienced repeated periods of
fragmentation and connection through cyclic changes in sea level, complex among-island …

The deliberate introduction of the rosy wolf snail Euglandina rosea to the Society Islands in
the 1970s led to the mass extirpation of its rich Partulidae (Pilsbry, 1900) fauna, comprising …

Newly arrived species on young or remote islands are likely to encounter less predation and
competition than source populations on continental landmasses. The associated ecological …