Drymaeus virgulatus, an extirpated land snail species on Saint Kitts and Tintamarre islands

The land snail species Drymaeus virgulatus (Férussac, 1821) is recorded in St. Kitts the form of 21 complete or fragmented shells collected on island November 2019. were backshores South Frigate Bay and Majors Bay, while shell fragments come from naturally exposed sections North sand ridge, where they date to pre-Columbian period. This evidence therefore attests past presence this island. absence taxon recent malacological surveys points it having been extirpated Kitts. Apertural a large bulimulidae caves Tintamarre Island, near Martin, are also related taxon, adding second West Indian which apparently disappeared centuries.