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Subfossil Land Snails from Easter Island, Including
Hotumatua anakenana , New Genus and Species (Pulmonata: Achatinellidae) - Pacific Science
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 63, Number 1, January 2009
- pp. 105-122
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The depauperate modern terrestrial biota of Easter Island contrasts with that of most other southeastern Polynesian high islands, which characteristically support a number of endemic species of insects, land snails, birds, and plants. We investigated cultural and noncultural late Holocene deposits at Anakena, Easter Island, establishing the former presence of endemic land snails on the island. These include an unidentified helicinid, a