Samoana
| Samoana | |
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| A live individual of Samoana fragilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Partuloidea |
| Family: | Partulidae |
| Genus: |
Samoana Pilsbry, 1909 |
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Samoana is a genus of tropical, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae.
Species within the genus Samoana include:
A cladogram showing the phylogenic relations of Samoana and three of its investigated species:
The genus Samoana was defined by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in Manual of Conchology in 1909:
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.
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