Report on a preliminary survey of the land snail fauna of Rotuma

Fiji lies between 177° E and 178° W Longitude and 12° to 22° S Latitude with a land area of 18,333 km2. It covers about 1.3 million square kilometers of the South Pacific Ocean. It includes 320 islands of which about a third are inhabited. The majority of the land is on continental-like volcanic islands that rise to well over 1,000 metres in elevation. Over 87% of the land is concentrated in the islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.