Nonmarine Mollusks of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands

Abstract

It has long been realized that the coral atolls and low islands of the Pacific possess a meager, limited, and characteristic snail fauna which are of little zoogeographical value (Pilsbry; 1900, 1916, Cooke; 1926). Cooke (1934) has described the terrestrial molluscan fauna of one of the typical lower islands; and recently Solem (1959) has listed the major molluscan elements of the atoll fauna .