Samoana inflata

Extinct species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Samoana inflata was a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae.[3] It was endemic to Hiva Oa and Tahuata in the Marquesas Islands and went extinct in the 1990s or 2000s.

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Samoana inflata
Extinct
Extinct (1990s or 2000s) (IUCN 3.1)[1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Partulidae
Genus: Samoana
Species:
S. inflata
Binomial name
Samoana inflata
(Reeve, 1842)[2]
Synonyms[2]
  • Bulimus thersites L.Pfeiffer, 1842
  • Partula inflata Reeve, 1842
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