Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00159
Meghimatium striatum
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About Meghimatium striatum
Bishop Museum's introduced-mollusk catalogue explicitly lists Kauai (K) and status Established; a 2024 CABI account independently repeats Kauai and Oahu occurrence since at least 1846.
MolluscaBase/WoRMS AphiaID 1249787 treats Meghimatium striatum as accepted. Bishop Museum's 1997 catalogue treated M. bilineatum and M. australis as synonyms but explicitly noted taxonomic uncertainty.
Accepted terrestrial slug; land-mollusk census scope applies.
Accepted taxonomy and two authoritative accounts verify an established introduced Kauai population, while modern abundance remains unquantified.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Meghimatium striatum
- Other names
- Meghimatium striatum
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Introduced and established historically; no 2026 Kauai resurvey is claimed.
- Origin
- Introduced
- 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
- Meghimatium striatum is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Accepted taxonomy and two authoritative accounts verify an established introduced Kauai population, while modern abundance remains unquantified.