Endemism and Evolution in the Hawaiian Biota:

Terrestrial Mollusks

Rob Cowie

Center for Conservation Research and Training, UH

Notes for Lecture

Power Point Presentation

Lecture Audio (19 March 2009)

REQUIRED READING:

ALL Students: (Week 10)

Ziegler Chapters 15 & 18

WI Students:

Hadfield,M. G. 1986. Extinction in Hawaiian achatinelline snails. Malacalogia 27: 67-81. NHHI II: 320-334.

Photo: View of the Terrestrial Snail Exclosure near Pahole Gulch in the Waianae Mountains

Checkout this searchable database on the internet

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED READING:

Cowie, R.H. 1998. Patterns of introduction of non-indigenous non-marine snails and slugs in the Hawaiian islands. Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 349-368. (you will have to go to the library or ask Dr. Cowie for a reprint.)

SUGGESTED READING:

Cowie, R.H. 2002. Invertebrate invasions on Pacific islands and the replacement of unique native faunas: a synthesis of the land and freshwater snails. Biological Invasions 3(3)[2001]: 119-136.

Cowie, R.H. 2001. Can snails ever be effective and safe biocontrol agents? International Journal of Pest Management 47(1): 23-40.

(Also available at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/09670874.html

go to “Table of Contents” and locate this volume/issue and then click on the article.

Carson, H. L. 1987. The process by which species originate. BioScience 3:715-720.

Cowie, R. H. 1995. Variation in species diversity and shell shape in Hawaiian land snails: in situ speciation and ecological relationships. Evolution 49: 1191-1202.

Cowie, R.H., 1996. Pacific island land snails: relationships, origins, and determinants of diversity. In: A. Keast and S. E. Miller (Eds). The origin and evolution of Pacific island biotas, New Guinea to eastern Polynesia: patterns and processes. SPB Academic Publishing, Amsterdam. Pp. 347-372.

Cowie, R. H., N. L. Evenhuis, and C. C. Christensen. 1995. Catalog of the Native Land and Freshwater Molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands.  Backhuys Publishers, Leiden.

Cowie, R. H., G. M. Nishida, Y. Basset, and S. M. Gon III. 1995. Patterns of land snail distribution in a montane habitat on the island of Hawaii. Malacologia 36: 155-169.

Gulick, J. T. 1905. Evolution, racial and habitudinal. Carnegie Institution, Washington, DC.

Hadfield, M. G. and B. S. Mountain. 1980. A field study of a vanishing species: Achatinella mustelina (Gastropoda: Pulmonata), in the Waianae mountains of Oahu.  Pacific Science 34: 345-358.

Hadfield, M. G. and S. E. Miller. 1989. Demographic study of Partulina proxima.  Pacific Science 43: 1-16.

Hadfield, M.G., S. E. Miller and A. H. Carwile. 1993. The decimation of endemic Hawaiian tree snails by alien predators. American Zoologist 33: 610-622.

Hart, A. D. 1978. The onslaught against Hawaiian tree snails. Natural History 87: 46-56.

Pilsbry, H. A. & C. M. Cooke, Jr. 1912-1914. Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Vol XXII. Achatinellidae. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.

Pokryszko, B. M. 1997. Lyropupa Pilsbry, 1900.  Systematics, evolution and dispersal (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Pupilloidea).  Genus 8: 377-487.

Vagvolgyi, J. 1975. Body size, aerial dispersal, and origin of the Pacific land snail fauna.  Systematic Zool. 24: 465.