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Samoana burchi

Samoana burchi
Samoana burchi.jpg
Samoana burchi from Mount Atara 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. burchi
Binomial name
Samoana burchi
Kondo, 1973

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Samoana burchi is a species of a land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the Partulidae family. This species is endemic to Tahiti, French Polynesia.

The species is similar to Samoana attenuata but shell is brown, and the snail can find in highland forest.



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