PUBLICATIONS OF THE SAMOAN SNAIL PROJECT

Reprints or photocopies of these publications can be obtained from Robert H. Cowie, from the Bishop Museum Press for Bishop Museum publications, and from the Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Published

Cowie, R.H. 1998. Catalog of the nonmarine snails and slugs of the Samoan Islands. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Zoology 3. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu. viii + 122 p.

Cowie, R.H. 1998. Homogenization of Pacific island snails. World Conservation 4/97-1/98: 18.

Cowie, R.H. 1998. Predatory snails in Hawaii and the Pacific: biocontrol run amok. World Conservation 4/97-1/98: 33.

Cowie, R.H. & Cook, R.P. 1998. Partulid and other land snails of the National Park of American Samoa. Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Mollusc Specialist Group 8: 14-15.

Cowie, R.H. & Cook, R.P. 1999. The distribution and abundance of land snails in the National Park of American Samoa, with particular focus on Partulidae. Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Technical Report 125, iii + 143 p.

Cowie, R.H. 2000. Non-indigenous land and freshwater molluscs in the islands of the Pacific: conservation impacts and threats. In: Invasive species in the Pacific: a technical review and regional strategy. (ed. G. Sherley), p. 143-172. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Apia.

Cowie, R.H. & Cook, R.P. 2001. Extinction or survival: partulid tree snails in American Samoa. Biodiversity and Conservation 10(2): 143-159.

Cowie, R.H. 2001. Decline and homogenization of Pacific faunas: the land snails of American Samoa. Biological Conservation 99(2): 207-222.

Cowie, R.H. 2002. Invertebrate invasions on Pacific islands and the replacement of unique native faunas: a synthesis of the land and freshwater snails. Biological Invasions 3(3)[2001]: 119-136.

Cowie, R.H. & Rundell, R.J. 2002. The land snails of a small tropical Pacific island, Aunu‘u, American Samoa. Pacific Science 56(2): 143-147.

Cowie, R.H., Rundell, R.J., Mika, F. & Setu, P. 2002. The endangered partulid tree snail Samoana thurstoni on Olosega and the land snail diversity of the Manu'a Islands, American Samoa. American Malacological Bulletin. 17(1/2): 37-43.

Cowie, R.H. & Robinson, A.C. 2003. The decline of native Pacific island faunas: changes in status of the land snails of Samoa through the 20th century. Biological Conservation 110: 55-65.

Publications in preparation

Cowie, R.H. & Rundell, R.J. Samoan snails and slugs: a field identification guide.

Rundell, R.J. & Cowie, R.H. Evolution and biogeography of Hawaiian and other Pacific Island succineid land snails.