User:Porkhash808/Perdicella helena

Comments by A. Faucci (Apr 6, 2024):

Nice work on finding some great information. To polish your draft before copying it over to the main article please work on the following:

• Make sure you only include content that is important to your species. Anything about other species in the genus or the family should go on that respective Wikipedia page and not here. It is ok to include a comparison or rather distinction from a sister species. I would add that under the Description section at the end.
• I would delete the classification section as that info goes somewhere else and is in part contained in the taxabox.
• Description: Your current sentences look like it should be the lead sentences before the sparate sections. here should go information on how the snail looks. Size, shell form and color, etc.
• Distribution: Only include info for your 1 species. Start in general, ... is endemic to Molokai, Hawaii. (or wherever it is endemic to, right now it is very confusing which species is where).
• Habitat: great info, just try to be more specific and clear in your language. I would combine sentence 1 and 2 though and leave out that it is found on terrestrial areas as that info is already in the lead sentence.Also, who has the necessary fungi? the plant or the snail? maybe put that in a separate sentence and be more clear about what you mean.
• Make sure you use the Wikipedia formatting: section headings should be in Heading format (see the Paragraph drop-down menu), while the rest in paragraph format.
• Make sure all your scientific species names are in italics. Also, the genus needs to be written out at the beginning of a sentence. Also, there is no article ("the") before the species name (similar i don't say "The Hector .... is...").
• Make sure your sentences are all in perfect English and grammar and are easily understandable for a worldwide audience.
• Find 2 more sources to get to the required 5.

Classification

As species in the genus Perdicella differ from those of Partulina largely on the basis of size, and species in the genus Perdicella occur on separate branches, this suggests that dwarfism may have evolved multiple times across the species complex.

Distribution

Perdicella Helena, both species found on Molokaʻi, grouped together on a separate branch from Perdicella helena found on Maui, and Partulina variabilis and Partulina semicarinata, species endemic to Lanaʻi. This species has been known to enter the islands by getting stuck to feathers of birds or floating tree trunks that found their way to Hawaii.

Habitat

The Perdicella Helena live in terrestrial areas. They are found on the trunk, stems & leaves of certain non-pubescent plants that have necessary fungi. Perdicella Helena are found on trunk, stems & leaves of certain non-pubescent plants.

Description

Perdicella helena is a species of tropical tree-living, air-breathing, land snails, arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinellidae. This species is endemic to Hawaii in the United States. They fall under the Achatinellids in which are considered endangered. These snails are flat and round with a shell diameter of 3-10 mm. They can be found on the ground and in the vegetation.