Endemic land snails from the Pacific islands and the museum record: Documenting and dating the extinction of the terrestrial assimineidae of the Gambier Islands

Journal of Molluscan Studies

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 165-170

  Bouchet, Philippe ^a   Abdou, Ahmed ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDEMISM; EXTINCTION; MUSEUM; SNAIL;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; GAMBIER ISLANDS;

ASSIMINEIDAE; CANIDAE; CYCLOMORPHA FLAVA; CYCLOMORPHA SECESSA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MARGARITES; OMPHALOTROPIS MARGARITA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 0042414069     PISSN: 02601230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mollus/69.3.165     Document Type: Article

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