Partula affinis, P. otaheitana, French Polynesian tree snail


Plate 29 from Studies on the Genus Partula by Henry Edward Crampton (1916). Found only in French Polynesia this entire genus is on the brink of extinction due to predation from the introduced rosy wolf snail.


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