MOOREAN VIVIPAROUS TREE SNAIL
photography, edition of six

100 x 56 cm

2025

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"The Moorean viviparous tree snail, also known as sutural partula, is a species of snail once native to the island of Moorea in French Polynesia.

The species lived in trees, and was air-breathing and viviparous (giving birth to live young). The Moorean viviparous tree snail is extinct in the wild due to the introduction of the non-native, carnivorous rosy wolfsnail to the island in 1977.
 

In just ten years, the Moorean viviparous tree snail, and several other native snails, were wiped out.

The rosy wolfsnail was introduced to control the population of the giant African land snail, Lissachatina fulica, another introduced species." (Source: Activewild)