Kauaʻi record · KCA-OI-00067
Carelia necra
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About Carelia necra
A Kauaʻi land snail known from fossil-shell material at Hanamāʻulu flats. Cooke’s fully adult specimen survives as a body-whorl fragment, so a complete shell requires a qualified composite reconstruction. Bishop Museum’s dated 1997 list includes it as extinct, with last-seen date unknown.
Occurrence evidence
Bishop Museum checklist entries explicitly report Kauai.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Carelia necra
- 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
- No complete typical adult; up to 65 mm and 9½–10 whorls are historical estimates. Collection year, fossil age, original adult color and last living date unresolved. No living soft-part evidence reviewed.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Land
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- A Kauaʻi land snail known from fossil-shell material at Hanamāʻulu flats. Cooke’s fully adult specimen survives as a body-whorl fragment, so a complete shell requires a qualified composite reconstruction. Bishop Museum’s dated 1997 list includes it as extinct, with last-seen date unknown.