General Information

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE se.Polynesia COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group - restricted; N.Group ?; Land, coastal; on plants

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present    Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P	P	P		P	P

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Elasmias apertum (Pease, 1865)
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; MOLLUSCA; GASTROPODA; PULMONATA; Stylommatophora; Orthurethra; Achatinellacea; ACHATINELLIDAE / TORNATELLINIDAE

GENERAL NOTE: Cook & Kondo (1960:223) give distribution as Cooks - Tuamotu/Marquesas, & Rotuma, and conclude that it was likely spread by the early Polynesians.

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: NOT reported 1881 Garrett, who collected on Rarotonga, Mangaia, Atiu, & Aitutaki; specimens, 1994, under a Coconut Palm and on a Muri motu, J.Craig, as Elasmias apertum; NOT found 2005/10, Fred Brook who collected on Motutapu and Oneroa, in report 2005/11. Mangaia: NOT reported 1881 Garrett, who collected on Rarotonga, Mangaia, Atiu, & Aitutaki. Atiu: NOT reported 1881 Garrett, who collected on Rarotonga, Mangaia, Atiu, & Aitutaki. Mitiaro: specimens, 1994, "only around the inland pool, and in the inland makatea", J.Craig, as Elasmias apertum. Aitutaki: NOT reported 1881 Garrett, who collected on Rarotonga, Mangaia, Atiu, & Aitutaki.

References:
None recorded.

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM05b, zupM07a

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