Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00140

Leptachatina pachystoma

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About Leptachatina pachystoma

Bishop Museum Hawaii Biological Survey freshwater and terrestrial mollusk checklist explicitly lists Kauai in the island distribution.

MolluscaBase/WoRMS AphiaID 1723465 treats Leptachatina pachystoma as an accepted terrestrial species; an HBS infraspecific source name, where present, is collapsed to species rank.

WoRMS flags the taxon as terrestrial (isTerrestrial=1), or the MNHN/HBS land-snail catalogues supply the terrestrial context; the record is within the land-mollusk census branch.

Explicit Kauai island occurrence and terrestrial taxonomy are verified, but the inspected locality evidence does not establish a living modern population; classified historical, not current.

Names and classification

Scientific name: Leptachatina pachystoma
Other names: Leptachatina pachystoma · Leptachatina pachystoma subsp. brevis; Leptachatina pachystoma subsp. cylindrella; Leptachatina pachystoma subsp. pachystoma; Leptachatina pachystoma subsp. turgidula
Record type: species

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Kauaʻi occurrence: Historical occurrence verified; current persistence is not established by the inspected sources.
Origin: Origin not inferred from occurrence census
Conservation status: Not assessed
Evidence limits: Occurrence category and evidence are source-bounded. Abundance, trend, and living status are not inferred beyond the reviewed evidence.

Habitat and ecology

Habitats: Land

Process and seasonal context

Seasonal description: Leptachatina pachystoma is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Explicit Kauai island occurrence and terrestrial taxonomy are verified, but the inspected locality evidence does not establish a living modern population; classified historical, not current.

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