Samoana diaphana

Moorean viviparous tree snail
Samoana diaphana from Mount Pihaaiateta on Tahiti.
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
Species: S. diaphana
Binomial name
Samoana diaphana
Crampton & Cooke, 1953

Samoana diaphana, one of several species also known as the Moorean viviparous tree snail or the Polynesian tree snail, is a species of tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. This species is endemic to French Polynesia.[1]

References

External links

Moorean viviparous tree snail (Samoana diaphana) media at ARKive


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