Carelia paradoxa was a species of small, air-breathing, land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Amastridae.
This species was endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. It became extinct in the first half of the 20th century.Niles Eldredge, Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis, Princeton Univ. Press 2000, ; p. 197, giving 1930 as the last recorded date.Bruce A. Stein, Lynn S. Kutner, Jonathan S. Adams: Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States, Oxford Univ. Press 2000, ; p. 333 giving "pre-1945" for the last record.
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