| Rhachistia aldabrae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Cerastidae |
| Genus: | Rhachistia |
| Species: | R. aldabrae
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhachistia aldabrae (von Martens, 1898)[2]
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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.
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(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 Berlin 1: 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.
