• Source: Partula turgida

†Partula turgida was a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. This species was endemic to Ra'iātea, French Polynesia. It is now extinct.
Partula clarkei, misidentified as this species, was being kept alive in captivity, when the population suffered a crash caused by the microsporidian genus Steinhausia. This is the first definitive report of an extinction of a species caused by a parasite.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Partula turgida
• Partula (gastropod)
• Endling
• London Zoo
• IUCN Red List of extinct species
• List of recently extinct molluscs
• Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene
• List of Oceanian species extinct in the Holocene
• List of recently extinct invertebrates
• Polynesian tree snail