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Kauaʻi record · KCA-MOL-00137

Leptachatina laevis

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Leptachatina laevis — source-informed Atlas ecological reconstruction; not a specimen photograph or evidence of current abundance.
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About Leptachatina laevis

Bishop Museum Hawaii Biological Survey freshwater and terrestrial mollusk checklist explicitly lists Kauai in the island distribution.

MolluscaBase/WoRMS AphiaID 1615878 treats Leptachatina laevis as an accepted terrestrial species; an HBS infraspecific source name, where present, is collapsed to species rank.

WoRMS flags the taxon as terrestrial (isTerrestrial=1), or the MNHN/HBS land-snail catalogues supply the terrestrial context; the record is within the land-mollusk census branch.

Explicit Kauai island occurrence and terrestrial taxonomy are verified, but the inspected locality evidence does not establish a living modern population; classified historical, not current.

Names and classification

Scientific name
Leptachatina laevis
Other names
Leptachatina laevis
Record type
species

Kauaʻi occurrence and status

Kauaʻi occurrence
Historical occurrence verified; current persistence is not established by the inspected sources.
Origin
Origin not inferred from occurrence census
Conservation status
Not assessed
Evidence limits
Occurrence category and evidence are source-bounded. Abundance, trend, and living status are not inferred beyond the reviewed evidence.

Habitat and ecology

Habitats
Land

Process and seasonal context

Seasonal description
Leptachatina laevis is included in the verified Kauaʻi mollusk census. Explicit Kauai island occurrence and terrestrial taxonomy are verified, but the inspected locality evidence does not establish a living modern population; classified historical, not current.

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