Conservation Status
All 40 species are listed under United States federal legislation as endangered. The IUCN lists a number of these species as extinction and the remainder as critically endangered. In many cases the introduced and highly predatory snail Euglandina rosea has been involved in the extinctions and declines of the native tree snails.
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