Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2007

Abstract

The  nonmarine  snails  of  the  Hawaiian  Islands  have  been  cataloged  by  Cowie  (1997),reviewed by Cowie (1998a), and subsequent new records reported by Cowie (1998b, 1999,2000). The horticultural industry has been implicated in the transport and introduction ofsnails and slugs in various parts of the world (e.g., Robinson 1999; Barrientos 2000; Cowie&Robinson 2003; Robinson & Slapcinsky 2005), including Hawai‘i (e.g., Cowie 1998b,1999, 2000). Therefore, between 2004 and 2006 we undertook field surveys of nurseries,botanical gardens, and other similar facilities involved in the cultivation of plants, includ-ing aquatic plants, for sale, recreation or research on the six largest of the main HawaiianIslands, with the objective of documenting the species of snails and slugs present in thesefacilities.  Selection  of  facilities  to  be  surveyed  attempted  to  cover  each  island  broadly,although  most  nurseries  are  on  the  wetter,  windward  (northern  and  eastern)  sides  of  theislands. We surveyed 7 locations on Kaua‘i, 13 on O‘ahu, 1 on Moloka‘i (the only nurseryon that island), 5 on Maui, 1 on Läna‘i (the only one), and 13 on Hawai‘i.We document here the new state and island records. A more comprehensive analysisand  discussion  of  all  records  will  be  published  elsewhere.  Collections  were  made  byKenneth A. Hayes (KAH), Chuong T. Tran (CTT), Robert H. Cowie (RHC) and others, asindicated.  All  collected  material,  not  only  that  reported  here,  is  deposited  in  the  BishopMuseum  (BPBM)  Malacology  Collection.  Catalog  numbers  are  BPBM  MalacologyCollection  numbers.  Assignments  to  families  followRobinson  (1999)  if  applicable.Families are treated alphabetically. All latitude and longitude coordinates were recordedby GPS using the WGS 84 map datum. 

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