Samoana

Samoana is a genus of tropical, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Partulidae.^[2]

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Samoana

Samoana conica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Pupilloidei
Superfamily:	Pupilloidea
Family:	Partulidae
Genus:	Samoana Pilsbry, 1909^[1]
Type species
Partula canalis Mousson, 1865
Synonyms
Aega Hartman, 1881 Evadne Hartman, 1881 Latia Hartman, 1881 (unavailable; a junior homonym of Latia Gray, 1850 [Latiidae]) Partula (Aega) Hartman, 1881 (invalid: junior homobnym of Aega Leach, 1815 [Crustacea]; Marquesana is a replacement name) Partula (Evadne) Hartman, 1881 (invalid: junior homonym of Evadne Lovén, 1836 [Cnidaria]; Samoana is a replacement name) Partula (Latia) Hartman, 1881 (invalid: junior homonym of Latia Gray, 1850 [Gastropoda]; Marquesana is a replacement name Partula (Marquesana) Pilsbry, 1909 Partula (Samoana) Pilsbry, 1909 (original rank) Samoana (Marquesana) Pilsbry, 1909 · alternate representation Samoana (Samoana) Pilsbry, 1909 · alternate representation

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Species

Species within the genus Samoana include:^[2]^[3]

Samoana abbreviata (Mousson, 1869), (short Samoan tree snail)
Samoana alabastrina (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
Samoana annectens (Pease, 1865)
Samoana attenuata (Pease, 1865)
Samoana bellula (Hartman, 1885)
Samoana burchi Y. Kondo, 1973
Samoana conica (A. Gould, 1847)
Samoana cramptoni Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1934
Samoana decussatula (L. Pfeiffer, 1850)
Samoana diaphana (Crampton & C. M. Cooke, 1953) (Moorean viviparous tree snail)
Samoana dryas (Crampton & C. M. Cooke, 1953) (Raivavae tree snail)
Samoana fragilis (Férussac, 1821) (fragile tree snail)
Samoana ganymedes (L. Pfeiffer, 1846)
Samoana gonochila (L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
Samoana inflata (Reeve, 1842)
Samoana margaritae (Crampton & C. M. Cooke, 1933)
Samoana medana Y. Kondo & J. B. Burch, 1989
Samoana minuta (L. Pfeiffer, 1857)
Samoana pilsbryi Gerlach, 2016 (Pilsbry's tree snail)
Samoana stevensoniana (Pilsbry, 1909)
Samoana thurstoni (Crampton & C. M. Cooke, 1930)

Samoana canalis (Mousson, 1865): synonym of Samoana conica (A. Gould, 1847)
Samoana hamadryas Crampton & Cooke, 1953: synonym of Samoana dryas Crampton & Cooke, 1953
Samoana jackieburchi Y. Kondo, 1981: synonym of Partula jackieburchi (Y. Kondo, 1981) (original combination)
Samoana magdalinae (Hartman, 1885): synonym of Samoana minuta (Pfeiffer, 1857)
Samoana meyeri (Burch, 2007): synonym of Partula meyeri Burch, 2007
Samoana oreas Crampton & Cooke, 1953: synonym of Samoana dryas Crampton & Cooke, 1953
Samoana strigata (Pease, 1868): synonym of Samoana gonochila (Pfeiffer, 1847)

A cladogram showing the phylogenic relations of Samoana and three of its investigated species:^[4]

Samoana

The genus Samoana was defined by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in Manual of Conchology in 1909:^[1]

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.

In 1909, Pilsbry assigned six species to the genus Samoana.^[1]