{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | image = Partula taeniata high quality.jpg | image_caption = | image2 = PartulaTaeniata.jpg | image2_caption = Shell of ''Partula taeniata'' | status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn">{{cite iucn |author=Coote, T. |author2=Gerlach, J. |year=2022 |title=''Partula taeniata'' |article-number=e.T16282A119135729 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T16282A119135729.en}}</ref> | taxon = Partula taeniata | authority = Mörch, 1850 | synonyms = }}
'''''Partula taeniata''''', common name the Moorean viviparous tree snail, is a species of terrestrial gastropod in the Partulidae family. It is endemic to French Polynesia.<ref name="iucn" />
This species was considered to be extinct in the wild, but intensive field surveys have recently detected surviving wild populations.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Lee T.|author2= Burch J. B. |author2-link=John B. Burch|author3= Coote T.|author4= Pearce-Kelly P.|author5= Hickman C.|author6= Meyer J.-Y. |author7= Foighil D. O. |name-list-style=amp |date=18 August 2009|title=Moorean tree snail survival revisited: a multi-island genealogical perspective |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=9|issue= 1 |page=204|doi=10.1186/1471-2148-9-204|doi-access= free |pmid= 19686604 |pmc= 3087522 |bibcode= 2009BMCEE...9..204L }}</ref>
== Conservation status == The species is listed as Critically Endangered in the 2022 and 2024 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.<ref name="iucn" />
Previously it was incorrectly listed as extinct on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species from 1988 to 1994<ref name = "iucn"/> and as Extinct in the wild in the 1996 IUCN Red List, before being corrected to Critically Endangered in 2009,<ref name="IUCN2009">{{cite iucn |author=Coote, T. |year=2009 |title=''Partula taeniata'' |volume=2009 |article-number=e.T16282A5596415 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009-2.RLTS.T16282A5596415.en |access-date=25 July 2024}}</ref> although two subspecies survive in captivity and one still exists in the wild.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Arcara |first1=M |title=THE EFFECTS OF HABITAT FRAGMENTATION ON THE ENDANGERED LAND SNAIL PARTULA TAENIATA IN MOOREA, FRENCH POLYNESIA |url=http://www.moorea-ucb.org/uploads/1/1/8/3/118334900/2017_makayla_arcara.pdf |website=Biology and geomorphology of tropical islands |publisher=Department of Integrative Biology, University of California |access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref> This error may be the result of changing taxonomy (the subspecies were previously considered to be separate species).
In 2010, a single ''Partula taeniata'' spp. ''simulans'' was transferred to the Edinburgh Zoo; the subspecies now has several hundred individuals surviving in captivity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kuta |first=Sarah |date=2 May 2023 |title=Scientists Reintroduce 5,000 Snails to French Polynesian Islands |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-reintroduce-5000-snails-to-french-polynesian-islands-180982094/ |access-date=2023-05-27 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref>
== Subspecies == Listing of subspecies in the 2011 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (not up to date): * ''Partula taeniata elongata'' Pease, 1866 - extinct in the wild<ref name = IUCN2007b>{{cite iucn |author=Mollusc Specialist Group |date=1996 |title=''Partula taeniata'' ssp. ''elongata'' |article-number=e.T16346A5608321 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T16346A5608321.en}}</ref> (rediscovered in 2003<ref name="iucn" />) * ''Partula taeniata nucleola'' "Pease" Schmeltz, 1874 - extinct in the wild<ref name = IUCN2007c>{{cite iucn |author=Mollusc Specialist Group |date=1996 |title=''Partula taeniata'' ssp. ''nucleola'' |article-number=e.T16348A5609348 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T16348A5609348.en}}</ref> (rediscovered) * ''Partula taeniata simulans'' Pease, 1866 - extinct in the wild<ref name = IUCN2007d>{{cite iucn |author=Mollusc Specialist Group |date=1996 |title=''Partula taeniata'' ssp. ''simulans'' |article-number=e.T16347A5609029 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T16347A5609029.en}}</ref> * ''Partula taeniata taeniata'' Mörch, 1850 - extinct<ref name="IUCN2007">{{cite iucn|title=''Partula taeniata'' ssp. ''taeniata''|article-number=e.T64445A12781913|author=Mollusc Specialist Group|date=1996|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T64445A12781913.en}}</ref>
== Gallery ==
=== Partula taeniata elongata === <gallery> File:Partula taeniata 3.jpg|Maatea Valley population File:Partula taeniata 2.jpg|Haumi Valley population (possibly extinct<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tentacle 29 |url=https://www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Tentacle/Tentacle_29.pdf |website=University of Hawaii}}</ref>) </gallery>
=== Partula taeniata nucleola === <gallery> File:Partula taeniata nucleola.jpg|Captive population File:Partula taeniata 5.jpg|Moruu Valley population </gallery>
=== Partula taeniata simulans === <gallery> File:Partula taeniata simulans.jpg|Mount Tohiea population </gallery>
=== Partula taeniata (unidentified subspecies) === <gallery> File:Partula taeniata high quality.jpg|Captive population File:Partula taeniata.jpg|Opunohu Bay population File:Partula taeniata 4.jpg|Morioahu Valley population </gallery>
== References == {{Reflist}}
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taeniata Category:Fauna of French Polynesia Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Taxa named by Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch Category:Gastropods described in 1850