Kauaʻi record · KCA-OI-00061
Carelia hyattiana
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About Carelia hyattiana
Kauaʻi endemic land snail in Amastridae, represented by historical dead shells and Waipa fossils. The narrow adult in plate IX figure 8 has an unknown exact origin; figure 7 is juvenile.
Occurrence evidence
Bishop Museum checklist explicitly reports Kauai.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Carelia hyattiana
- 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
- Exact adult station and collection date, fossil deposit age, external living-body appearance, taxonomic certainty of two atypical Emerson shells, last-seen date and modern survey coverage unresolved.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Land
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Kauaʻi endemic land snail in Amastridae, represented by historical dead shells and Waipa fossils. The narrow adult in plate IX figure 8 has an unknown exact origin; figure 7 is juvenile.