Samoana

Samoana
A live individual of Samoana fragilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Partuloidea
Family: Partulidae
Genus: Samoana
Pilsbry, 1909[1]

Samoana is a genus of tropical, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae.

Species

Species within the genus Samoana include:[2][3]

A cladogram showing the phylogenic relations of Samoana and three of its investigated species:[4]

Partulidae


Partula
Samoana


Samoana diaphana

Samoana burchi

Samoana attenuata

Eua



Description

The genus Samoana was defined by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in Manual of Conchology in 1909:[1]

“

The shell is very openly umbilicate, dextral or sinistral, with flatly reflexed lip and no teeth. Type P. canalis. Samoan Is., species 53 to 58.

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In 1909, Pilsbry assigned six species to the genus Samoana.[1]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]

  1. 1 2 3 4 Pilsbry H. A. (1909). In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1909) Manual of Conchology, Volume 20. Caecilioides, Clessula and Partulidae. Index to vols. XVI. - XX. (2)20: 165, 263.
  2. ↑ IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 November 2009.
  3. ↑ Gerlach, J. (2016) Icons of Evolution - Pacific island tree snails, family Partulidae. Phelsuma Press, Cambridge
  4. ↑ Lee T., Burch J. B., Coote T., Pearce-Kelly P., Hickman C., Meyer J.-Y. & Foighil D. O. (18 August 2009). "Moorean tree snail survival revisited: a multi-island genealogical perspective". BMC Evolutionary Biology 9: 204. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-204
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