Extinct even before scientific recognition: a remarkable radiation of helicinid snails (Helicinidae) on the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia

Can We Name Earth's Species Before They Go Extinct?

(2013) M. J. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Anthropogenic extinction of Pacific land snails: A case study of Rurutu, French Polynesia, with description of eight new species of endodontids (Pulmonata)

(2013) ANDRÉ F. SARTORI et al.   ZOOTAXA

21 years of shelf life between discovery and description of new species

(2012) Benoît Fontaine et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

From Early Polynesian Settlements to the Present: Bird Extinctions in the Gambier Islands

(2012) Jean-Claude Thibault et al.   PACIFIC SCIENCE

Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity

(2012) Q. D. Wheeler et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Evolution, Insular Restriction, and Extinction of Oceanic Land Crabs, Exemplified by the Loss of an Endemic Geograpsus in the Hawaiian Islands

(2011) Gustav Paulay et al.   PLoS One

Reservoirs of richness: least disturbed tropical forests are centres of undescribed species diversity

(2011) X. Giam et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quatre espèces nouvelles d'Endodontidae (Mollusca, Pulmonata) éteints de Rurutu (Îles Australes, Polynésie française)

(2011) Gabrielle Zimmermann et al.   ZOOSYSTEMA

Pacific Flying Foxes (Mammalia: Chiroptera): Two New Species of Pteropus from Samoa, Probably Extinct

(2010) Kristofer M. Helgen et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

The Barometer of Life

(2010) S. N. Stuart et al.   SCIENCE

When a Snail Dies in the Forest, how Long will the Shell Persist? Effect of Dissolution and Micro-bioerosion

(2009) Timothy A. Pearce   AMERICAN MALACOLOGICAL BULLETIN

Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions

(2009) CLAIRE RÉGNIER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Subfossil Land Snails from Easter Island, Including Hotumatua anakenana, New Genus and Species (Pulmonata: Achatinellidae)1

(2008) Patrick V. Kirch et al.   PACIFIC SCIENCE