Rhachistia aldabrae, the Aldabra banded snail, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Cerastidae. The species lives on one atoll in the Seychelles Islands, Indian Ocean, and is easily recognizable for its purplish-blue banded shell. The species was thought to have died out because of climate change,[3] but was rediscovered in 2014.
^Gerlach, J. (2018). "Rhachistia aldabrae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T168122A67485998. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-1.RLTS.T168122A67485998.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^(in German) von Martens E. & Wiegmann F. (1898). "Land- und Süsswasser-Mollusken der Seychellen nach den Sammlungen von Dr. Aug. Brauer." Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung des Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin1: 1-94. page 28, table 2, figures 15-16.
^Gerlach, J. (2007). "Short-term climate change and the extinction of the snail Rhachistia aldabrae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Biology Letters. 3 (5): 581–584. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2007.0316. PMC 2391199. PMID 17666376.
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