Samoana
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:
- 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:Description
The genus Samoana was defined by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in Manual of Conchology in 1909:
In 1909, Pilsbry assigned six species to the genus Samoana.
