Samoana gonochila
Species of gastropod
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Samoana gonochila, common name the "Polynesian tree snail", is a species of tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Partulidae.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Partulidae |
| Genus: | Samoana |
| Species: | S. gonochila |
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| Samoana gonochila (L. Pfeiffer, 1847) | |
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Distribution
This species is endemic to Nuku Hiva and Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.[1]
