{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | image = Partula rosea adult both.tif | status = EW | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn">{{cite iucn |author=Coote, T. |author2=Gerlach, J. |year=2022 |title=''Partula rosea'' |article-number=e.T16293A119138158 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T16293A119138158.en |language=en}}</ref> | taxon = Partula rosea | authority = Broderip, 1832 | synonyms = ''Partula purpurascens'' <small>L. Pfeiffer, 1857</small> (junior synonym) }}
'''''Partula rosea''''' is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate' gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS|db=MolluscaBase |year=2021 |title= ''Partula rosea'' Broderip, 1832 |id=957016 |access-date= 2021-12-14}}</ref>
==Description== The length of the shell attains {{cvt|22.4|mm}}.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
==Uses== thumb|left|A lei made of ''Partula rosea'' shells The shell of this species was used to make lei, like ''Partula varia'' from the same island.
==Distribution== This species was endemic to Huahine, French Polynesia. It was extinct in the wild, only existing in captivity.<ref name="iucn" />
Half the world's population of this snail was within one room at Marwell Zoo in the UK.<ref>{{cite news |date=22 February 2008|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579508/The-little-snail-in-big-trouble.html |title=The little snail in big trouble|work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date= 25 February 2014}}</ref> In 2019 the species was reintroduced to the wild on Huahine.<ref name=Mckie>{{cite news |last=McKie |first=robin |date=28 September 2019 |title=Precious escargot: the mission to return tiny snails to Pacific islands |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/28/return-of-native-tiny-partula-snail-key-south-pacific-wildlife |work=The Guardian |access-date=21 March 2023}} </ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite book|author=Gerlach J. |year=2016|title= Icons of evolution: Pacific Island tree-snails of the family Partulidae |publisher= Phelsuma Press|isbn=978-0-99322-033-3}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} *{{cite journal |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12861722 |author=Broderip, W. J. |year=1832 |title= New species of shells collected by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of south America and in the islands of the South Pacific Ocean|journal= Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London|volume= 2|pages= 124–126}} *{{cite journal|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860878 |author=Pfeiffer, L. |year=1857 |title=Descriptions of fifty-eight new species of Helicea from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London|volume= 24 |issue=321}}
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Category:Fauna of French Polynesia rosea Category:Taxa named by William Broderip Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Gastropods described in 1832
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