Partula mooreana


Partula mooreana, common name the Moorean viviparous tree snail, is a species of air-breathing tropical land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. This species was endemic to French Polynesia. It is now extinct in the wild.

Original description

Partula mooreana was originally described by William Dell Hartman in 1880. Hartman's original text reads as follows: