Thwing’s Cookeconcha Snail (Cookeconcha thwingi)
This species was described in 1904.
Thwing’s Cookeconcha Snail inhabited an extinct crater at the Kona coast of Hawai’i, Hawaiian Islands.
The shells reached a size of 0,21 to 0,25 cm in diameter. [1]
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References:
[1] Alan Solem: Endodontoid land snails from Pacific Islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part I, Family Endodontidae. Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, Illinois 1976
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edited: 23.03.2018
Dead as the Dodo – Holocene Extinctions
… about 5858 taxa have disappeared since the beginning of the Anthropocene era (since about 10000 BCE)
