Palaina

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Palaina
Shell of Palaina tuberosa (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Genus: Palaina
Semper, 1865[1]
Type species
Diplommatina macgillivrayi L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Synonyms[2]
  • Anostomella E. von Martens, 1867
  • Diplommatina (Palaina) O. Semper, 1865
  • Diplommatina (Pseudopalaina) Möllendorff, 1897
  • Eupalaina Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898
  • Macropalaina Möllendorff, 1897
  • Palaina (Macropalaina) Möllendorff, 1897 (junior synonym)
  • Palaina (Palaina) O. Semper, 1865· accepted, alternate representation
  • Pupa (Anostomella) E. von Martens, 1867
  • Pupoidea Pease, 1865

Palaina is a genus of minute land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Diplommatinidae.[2]

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