Samoana
| Samoana | |
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| A live individual of Samoana fragilis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| 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]
- Samoana abbreviata, Short Samoan tree snail
- Samoana annectens
- Samoana attenuata
- Samoana bellula
- Samoana burchi
- Samoana conica
- Samoana cramptoni
- Samoana decussatula
- Samoana diaphana
- Samoana dryas
- Samoana fragilis
- Samoana ganymedes
- Samoana hamadryas
- Samoana inflata †
- Samoana jackieburchi †
- Samoana magdalinae
- Samoana margaritae
- Samoana meyeri
- Samoana oreas
- Samoana strigata
- Samoana thurstoni
A cladogram showing the phylogenic relations of Samoana and three of its investigated species:[3]
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Description
The genus Samoana was defined by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in Manual of Conchology in 1909:[1]
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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 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.
- ↑ IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 14 November 2009.
- ↑ 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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