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The Land Snails of a Small Tropical Pacific Island, Aunu'u, American Samoa
- Pacific Science
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 56, Number 2, April 2002
- pp. 143-147
- 10.1353/psc.2002.0011
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Survey work on the American Samoan island of Aunu'u, a small island off the eastern end of Tutuila, combined with review of museum collections, increased the known land snail fauna of the island from 2 to 22 species. Of these species, 12 are native to the Samoan Archipelago, nine are introduced, and one is cryptogenic (of unknown origin). The fauna is a subset of that of the main American Samoan island of Tutuila, although it also includes one species endemic to Aunu'u but now extinct.