Partulidae

Partulidae

Partula radiolata
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 Pilsbry, 1900
Genera
See text.

Partulidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora, endemic to Pacific islands.^[1]^[2]

Genera

Partulidae is divided into three genera:^[3]

Eua has four species, confined to Tonga and Samoa.
Partula has about 100 species, distributed from Belau to the Society Islands.
Samoana has about 23 species, distributed in Polynesia and the Mariana Islands.

A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of genera in the family Partulidae:^[4]

Partulidae

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).^[5]

^ Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.
^ ITIS Standard Report Page: Partulidae
^ Cowie, R.H. (1992). Evolution and Extinction of Partulidae, Endemic Pacific Island Land Snails. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 335, No. 1274 (Feb. 29, 1992), pp. 167-191.
^ 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
^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.