| Samoana | |
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| Samoana fragilis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Partuloidea |
| Family: | Partulidae |
| Genus: | Samoana Pilsbry, 1909[1] |
Samoana is a genus of tropical, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonatel gastropod mollusks in the family Partulidae.
Species within the genus Samoana include:[2]:
A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of Samoana and three of its investigated species:[3]
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The genus Samoana was defined by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in Manual of Conchology in 1909:[1]
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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. |
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Pilsbry assigned six species to the genus Samoana that time in 1909.[1]
This article inrorporates public somain text from the reference.[1]