… land snails world wide. While this genus, and the other Hawaiian Achatinellinae, have
attracted extensive and detailed work on their taxo nomy and distribution (eg Cooke & Kondo …

… Volcanic activity in northern inland New South Wales between 40 and 15 million years ago
… of land snail species diversity and endemism. A high-elevation and dry rainforest land snail …

… of native land snail taxa believed to be extinct today at … An analysis of change over time in
the diversity of land snail … the diversity of native, extinct land snail taxa, explained as the result …

… found in the plumage of birds, or on insects; mineral particles found in the air at high altitudes;
the colonization by land snails of recently formed volcanic islands; the fossil record and …

… Results Repeated volcanic events have changed the topography of the islands and created
periodic further isolates. There has been climatic fluctuation and varying sea level. Individual …

… extinction in the Hawaiian land snail family Amastridae (325 species, IUCN lists 33 as extinct).
… or subfossil and were assumed to be extinct. Of the remaining 282, we evaluated 88 as …

… The Gambiers are an isolated group of small, volcanic … the high extinction threats faced by
Pacific island land snails (… an extraordinary diversity of land snails historically present on the …

… Records of now-extinct taxa in dated archaeological contexts … the chronology of extinction
of the 10 species of land snails of the … dated strata were certainly extinct by the late nineteenth …

… Madeira is an oceanic island of volcanic origin which rises steeply to over … Of the fourteen
extinct land snail species occurring in the c. 300,000-year-long Quatemary fossil record of …

… a previously undescribed extinct achatinellid land snail, … land snails, before the deforestation
of Easter Island is also supported by faunal comparison of Easter Island with other volcanic ‘‘…