Pacificella variabilis

• Main Author: Araya, Juan Francisco
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Stylommatophora; Achatinellidae; Pacificella; Pacificella variabilis; Almonacid; Cornu; Henderson Island; Kondo; Pacific; Tonga
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4336555; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4336555

Description Odhner (1922), Cooke and Kondo (1960). Distribution Native to Henderson Island (Preece 1995), widespread in the South Pacific Islands from Western Polynesia (Samoa, Tonga) throughout southeastern Polynesia to Easter Island (Kirch et al. 2009). In Chile this species has been recorded only in Easter Island (39°48 ʹ S, 73°14 ʹ W) (Stuardo and Vega 1985; Stuardo and Vargas-Almonacid 2000), and it was found for the first time in Chile by Odhner (1922). Possible mechanism of introduction/Status Human transportation/established (Stuardo and Vargas-Almonacid 2000). Remarks Although this species was described as native to Easter Island (Odhner 1922), it is probably native to Henderson Island, where some fossil shells are present in sedimentary deposits pre-dating human settlement (Preece 1995). EA, UI. Published as part of Araya, Juan Francisco, 2015, Current status of the non-indigenous molluscs in Chile, with the first record of Otala punctata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) in the country and new records for Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774) and Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774), pp. 1731-1761 in Journal of Natural History 49 (29) on page 1739, DOI:10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703, http://zenodo.org/record/3997965