Not knowing, not recording, not listing: Numerous unnoticed mollusk extinctions

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1214-1221

  Régnier, Claire ^a   Fontaine, Benoît ^a   Bouchet, Philippe ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation status; Extinction; Geographic bias; Islands; IUCN Red List; Mollusk; Taxonomic bias

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

EXTINCTION; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLLUSC; RED LIST; SNAIL; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MOLLUSC; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FRESH WATER; MOLLUSCA; SEAWATER;

EUGLANDINA ROSEA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349223902     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01245.x     Document Type: Article

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