Kauaʻi record · KCA-OI-00065
Carelia lymani
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About Carelia lymani
An endemic Kauaʻi land snail known in Cooke’s account from one fossil shell of unknown locality. The plate XIV figure 5 specimen is explicitly not quite adult, so its final adult form is unresolved. Bishop Museum’s dated 1997 list includes it as extinct.
Occurrence evidence
Bishop Museum checklist explicitly reports Kauai.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Carelia lymani
- 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
- Only documented specimen is not quite adult. Final adult size, aperture and outline require inference; exact locality, fossil age, collection year and last living occurrence are unknown. Adult primary reconstruction remains on hold.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Land
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- An endemic Kauaʻi land snail known in Cooke’s account from one fossil shell of unknown locality. The plate XIV figure 5 specimen is explicitly not quite adult, so its final adult form is unresolved. Bishop Museum’s dated 1997 list includes it as extinct.