Kauaʻi record · KCA-OI-00060
Carelia glossema
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About Carelia glossema
Kauaʻi endemic land snail in Amastridae, historically collected alive in Olokele. Its narrow dark adult shell bears coarse vertical sculpture and tuberculate upper whorls; Makaweli is fragmentary dead-shell evidence.
Occurrence evidence
Bishop Museum checklist explicitly reports Kauai.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Carelia glossema
- 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
- Precise collection dates, present habitat condition, external living-body appearance, last-seen date and modern survey coverage unresolved. Wider distribution inferred from Makaweli fragments is unconfirmed.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Land
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Kauaʻi endemic land snail in Amastridae, historically collected alive in Olokele. Its narrow dark adult shell bears coarse vertical sculpture and tuberculate upper whorls; Makaweli is fragmentary dead-shell evidence.