| Miracle Partula | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Partulidae |
| Genus: | Partula |
| Species: | P. mirabilis
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| Binomial name | |
| Partula mirabilis H. E. Crampton, 1924
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Partula mirabilis is a species of partulid within the genus Partula. The species is rarely referred to as the miracle partula[1], and is endemic Moorea.
Distribution.
editCaptive breeding
editP. mirabilis is in the international Partula breeding program and the conservation efforts for this species have been very successful, allowing reintroductions since 2017.[2]
Phylogeny
editPhylogenetic analyses found P. mirabilis is sister to a population of P. clara and a population of P. suturalis vexillum.[3]
Taxonomy
editOriginal description
editThe original description is available online here.
| Partula MiRABiLis, ncw specics. Plate VI, figures 14-20.Shell dextral (reversed in rare mutations); ovate-conic to
elongate-conic, openly or compressly perforate. Whorls 5, slightly convex, the body-whorl flattened toward the lip; suture of the last whorl impressed. The surface is sculptured through- out, but the lines are fewer on the larger whorls, which are shining and generally smooth except in decorticated specimens. Aperture narrowed, elongated, almost oblong in general out- line. Lip sharply beveled, thin, and smooth. A thin, rough- ened callus spreads between the insertions of the lip. Parietal tooth present in almost all instances, but it is seldom prom- inent. Colors: (u) corneous fleshy, apex pale brown (Plate VI, fig. 14); (b) pale brown, with deeper brown transverse strigations (Plate VI, fig. 15), (c) corneous brown, with darker brown, ruddy, or rose-brown spire; (d) deep chocolate brown or seal brown, the s])ire usually lighter (Plate VI, fig. IG); (e) light brown, with tbree revolving bands of deeper brown color, and usually with sutural and basal clouding (Plate VI, fig. 17); (/) encircled by a broad zone of deep brown color, which is separ- ated from the brown sutural and basal areas by narrow corneous lines, often with an asymetrical revolving corneous line through |