Comments by A. Faucci (Apr 3, 2024):
Nice work on finding lots of great information. To polish your draft before copying it over to the main article please work on the following:
- I think your classification section is the lead. looks good.
- I would combine distribution and habitat as it is just one sentence each. Maybe link to a wikipedia page on lanai?
- Your Description section is about the conservation status. Right now it is a little confusing, but also that is part of the taxabox so you can leave it out. If you want to use your reference you could add some of the info there to the habitat part.
- Your Description section should include any information on how your snail looks. So, your info under Anatomy, but I would delete that first sentence.
- Make sure your sentences are all in perfect English and grammar and are easily understandable for a worldwide audience.
- Make sure all your scientific species names are in italics, the genus is written out at the beginning of a sentence.
- References: I see that you have one reference twice in there. Try to find another one.
- You can delete the text for the references as Wikipedia does it automatically.
Article Draft
editClassification
editPartulina variabilis (Lanai tree snail) is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae. This species is endemic to Hawaii. The US Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed to list this snail as an endangered species. This species is apart of the Achatinelnidae family that is endemic to Hawaiian subfamily, Achatinellinae. [1]
Distribution/Habitat
editPartulina variabilis is found in Lana'i at Lana'ihale. [2] Their habitats involve wet montane forests around wet cliffs. [1] These animals live in montane wet ecosystems at elevations from 3,300 feet to 3,600 feet of Mount Lanaihale. [1]
Description
editCertain threats such as hiking and road repaid put these species and their habitats at risk as they become more and more endemic. [3] Partulina variabilis are endemic to Hawaii and are on the endangered species list. They are considered imperiled. [4] This species is large in size and species in the genus Perdicella suggesting evolution of dwarfism across the species complex. [5]
Anatomy
editIt was found that invertebrates such as this species are poorly represented due to their lack of information and overly diversity. [6] These snails consist of ovate of shells with 5 to 7 whorls of a white basis color. They grow up to adults after a good 4 to 7 years of living in order to reach their full potential. [1] Partulina variabilis have oblong to ovate shells of adults with 0.5 to 0.6 inches long with no bands or a variable number of spiral bands around the shells. [1]
References
edit"ECOS: Species Profile". ecos.fws.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
"Partulina variabilis – Hawaii State Snails Voting Platform". Retrieved 2024-02-26.
"NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/58/6/1157/5032875. Retrieved 2024-02-26
"Partulina". Division of Forestry and Wildlife: Native Ecosystems Protection & Management. 2020-12-30. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- ^ a b c d e "ECOS: Species Profile". ecos.fws.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- ^ "Partulina variabilis – Hawaii State Snails Voting Platform". Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- ^ "Lanai_Partulina_variabilis.pdf" (PDF).
- ^ Price, Melissa R.; Hadfield, Michael G.; Knapp, Ingrid S.S.; Toonen, Robert J.; Forsman, Zac H. (2021-04-22). "Evolutionary genomics of endangered Hawaiian tree snails (Achatinellidae: Achatinellinae) for conservation of adaptive capacity". PeerJ. 9: e10993. doi:10.7717/peerj.10993. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8071074. PMID 33981486.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ "Biodiversity and Extinction of Hawaiian Land Snails: How Many Are Left Now and What Must We Do To Conserve Them". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 2024-02-26.