Kauaʻi record · KCA-OI-00056
Carelia cochlea
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About Carelia cochlea
A Kauaʻi land snail documented from historical fossil-shell collections on northern coastal flats. The selected Kalihikai adult in Cooke’s plate VIII figure 12 has nine spiral ridges. Fossil recovery dates do not establish living occurrence; Bishop Museum’s dated 1997 list includes it as extinct.
Occurrence evidence
Bishop Museum checklist explicitly reports Kauai.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Carelia cochlea
- Family
- Achatinellidae
- Order
- Stylommatophora
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- extinct
- Origin
- Endemic
- Conservation status
- Listed extinct (Bishop Museum, 1997; last seen unknown)
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-01
- Evidence limits
- Fossil age, last living occurrence, living body appearance and modern survey coverage unresolved. Cooke’s inferred living color and habitat are qualified as conjecture.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Land
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- A Kauaʻi land snail documented from historical fossil-shell collections on northern coastal flats. The selected Kalihikai adult in Cooke’s plate VIII figure 12 has nine spiral ridges. Fossil recovery dates do not establish living occurrence; Bishop Museum’s dated 1997 list includes it as extinct.