Not completely lost: Two partulid tree snail species persist on the highest peak of Raiatea, French Polynesia

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Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 615-619

  Lee, Taehwan ^a   Meyer, Jean Yves ^b   Burch, John B ^a   Pearce Kelly, Paul ^c   Ó Foighil, Diarmaid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Ministère de l'Education de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche   (French Polynesia)

^c ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Invasive species; Land snails; Montane refuge; Partula meyeri; Phylogeny; Raiatea; Samoana attenuata; Society Islands

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CARNIVORE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOME RANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MORPHOLOGY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; REFUGE; SNAIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; LEEWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; RAIATEA; SOCIETY ISLANDS;

EUGLANDINA ROSEA; GASTROPODA; PARTULA; PARTULIDAE; SAMOANA ATTENUATA; STYLOMMATOPHORA;

EID: 53949104702     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605308001427     Document Type: Article

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