# Partula meyeri

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{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

{{Speciesbox
| name = Meyer's tree snail
| image = Partula meyeri.png
| image_caption = The [holotype](/source/holotype) of ''Partula meyeri'' photographed in 2005.
| status = CR
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 13 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=O'Foighil, D. |date=2016 |title=''Partula meyeri'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T198826A103160054 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T198826A103160054.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Partula meyeri
| authority = [Burch](/source/John_B._Burch), 2007
| synonyms = ''Samoana meyeri''
}}

'''''Partula meyeri''''' (syn. '''''Samoana meyeri''''') is a [species](/source/species) of [tropical](/source/tropical), air-breathing [land snail](/source/land_snail), a [terrestrial](/source/terrestrial_molluscs), [pulmonate](/source/pulmonate), [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusc](/source/mollusc) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Partulidae](/source/Partulidae).<ref name="iucn status 13 November 2021" /><ref name="WoRMS">MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Partula meyeri J. B. Burch, 2007. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=986714 on 2021-12-12</ref>

==Etymology==
The species is named in honour of its discoverer, Jean-Yves Meyer.<ref name="Burch">{{cite journal| author=Burch, John B.| year=2007| title=A new species of land snail (Stylommatophora: Partulidae) from Raiatea, French Polynesia, Oceania| journal=Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology| number=740| pages=1–8| publisher=[University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan)| location=Ann Arbor, Michigan| url=http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/102732/OP740.pdf?sequence=1| format=[PDF](/source/PDF)| access-date=9 March 2014}}</ref>

==Distribution and habitat==
''P. meyeri'' is known only from Mount Tefatua (also called Mount Toomaru), the highest peak on the island of [Raiatea](/source/Raiatea) in the [Society Islands](/source/Society_Islands), [French Polynesia](/source/French_Polynesia). The [holotype](/source/holotype) and two other specimens, the only ones recorded so far, were collected in a wet gulch at about {{convert|950|m|-1}} elevation, just below the mountain summit.<ref name="iucn status 13 November 2021" /><ref name="Burch"/><ref name="oryx">{{cite journal| author=Taehwan Lee| author2=Jean-Yves Meyer| author3=John B. Burch| author4=Paul Pearce-Kelly| author5=Diarmaid Ó Foighil| name-list-style=amp| year=2008| title=Not completely lost: two partulid tree snail species persist on the highest peak of Raiatea, French Polynesia| journal=Oryx| volume=42| issue=4| pages=615–619| doi=10.1017/S0030605308001427| doi-access=free}}</ref>  The three snails were observed [aestivating](/source/Aestivation) on the leaves of montane vegetation; the typical daytime behaviour and [habitat](/source/habitat) of Society Island partulids.<ref name="iucn status 13 November 2021" />

==Description==
''P. meyeri'' has a conical [spire](/source/Spire_(mollusc)), evenly rounded [whorls](/source/Whorl_(mollusc)), and a brown, translucent [shell](/source/Gastropod_shell) with whorls terminating in a large, oval [aperture](/source/aperture_(mollusc)) ({{frac|2|3}} the shell length) that has a thin, expanded [peristome](/source/Peristome). The shell measures approximately {{cvt|16.5|mm}} in length and {{cvt|10.5|mm}} in width.<ref name="Burch"/>

==References==
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Category:Fauna of French Polynesia
Category:Samoana
Category:Gastropods described in 2007

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