Partula rosea

Conservation status
Extinct in the Wild (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Partulidae
Genus:	Partula
Species:	P. rosea
Binomial name
*Partula rosea* Broderip, 1832
Synonyms
Partula purpurascens L. Pfeiffer, 1857 (junior synonym)

Partula rosea is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.^[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 22.4 mm.

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Distribution

This species was endemic to Huahine, French Polynesia. It was extinct in the wild, only existing in captivity.^[1]

Half the world's population of this snail was within one room at a zoo in the UK.^[3] In 2019 the species was reintroduced to the wild on Huahine.^[4]

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Taxon identifiers

Taxon identifiers
Partula rosea	Wikidata: Q2704362 Wikispecies: Partula rosea ARKive: partula-rosea BOLD: 653074 CoL: 764SJ EoL: 4925263 GBIF: 5783060 iNaturalist: 108908 IUCN: 16293 NCBI: 149959 Open Tree of Life: 284089 WoRMS: 957016

Species of Partula

Species of Partula

Society Islands

Tahiti	P. affinis P. clara P. cytherea† P. diminuta† P. hyalina P. incrassa exigua† P. jackieburchi† P. nodosa P. otaheitana P. producta†
Moorea	P. aurantia† P. mirabilis P. mooreana P. suturalis strigosa vexillum P. taeniata elongata nucleola simulans P. tohiveana
Huahine	P. arguta‡ P. rosea P. varia
Raiatea	P. atilis† P. auriculata† P. crassilabris† P. cuneata† P. dentifera† callifera† candida† cedista† citrina† formosa† imperforata† P. dolichostoma† P. dolorosa† P. faba† subangulata† P. garrettii rustica† thalia† P. hebe P. labrusca† P. leptochila† P. levistriata† P. meyeri P. navigatoria P. pearcekellyi P. protracta† P. remota† P. tristis† P. turgida†
Tahaa	P. bilineata† P. eremita† P. planilabrum† P. sagitta† P. umbilicata†
Bora Bora and Maupiti	P. lutea†

Other locations

Marianas	P. gibba P. langfordi P. lutaensis P. radiolata
Micronesia	P. emersoni P. guamensis‡ P. rufa
Fiji	P. leefei P. lirata
Solomons	P. cramptoni⹋ P. micans
New Guinea	P. auraniana P. similaris⹋
Cooks	P. assimilis

† - extinct

‡ - possibly extinct

⹋ - data deficient