Samoana
Samoana is a genus of tropical, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae.
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Orthurethra |
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| Genus: | Samoana |
Species
Species within the genus Samoana include:[2][3]
- 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 gonochila
- Samoana hamadryas
- Samoana inflata†
- Samoana magdalinae
- Samoana margaritae
- Samoana medana
- Samoana meyeri
- Samoana oreas
- Samoana pilsbryi
- Samoana strigata
- Samoana thurstoni
A cladogram showing the phylogenic relations of Samoana and three of its investigated species:[4]
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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.
In 1909, Pilsbry assigned six species to the genus Samoana.[1]
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]
- 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.
- Gerlach, J. (2016) Icons of Evolution - Pacific island tree snails, family Partulidae. Phelsuma Press, Cambridge
- 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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