Samoana
Samoana is a genus of tropical, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Partulidae.
Species
Species within the genus Samoana include:Samoana abbreviata, Samoana alabastrina Samoana annectens Samoana attenuata Samoana bellula Samoana burchi Y. Kondo, 1973Samoana conica Samoana cramptoni Pilsbry & C. M. Cooke, 1934Samoana decussatula Samoana diaphana Samoana dryas Samoana fragilis Samoana ganymedes Samoana gonochila Samoana inflata Samoana margaritae Samoana medana Y. Kondo & J. B. Burch, 1989Samoana minuta Samoana pilsbryi Gerlach, 2016 Samoana stevensoniana Samoana thurstoni;Synonyms:Samoana canalis : synonym of Samoana conica Samoana hamadryas Crampton & Cooke, 1953: synonym of Samoana dryas Crampton & Cooke, 1953Samoana jackieburchi Y. Kondo, 1981: synonym of Partula jackieburchi Samoana magdalinae : synonym of Samoana minuta Samoana meyeri : synonym of Partula meyeri Burch, 2007Samoana oreas Crampton & Cooke, 1953: synonym of Samoana dryas Crampton & Cooke, 1953Samoana strigata : synonym of Samoana gonochila
A cladogram showing the phylogenic relations of Samoana and three of its investigated species:
Description
The genus Samoana was defined by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in Manual of Conchology in 1909:In 1909, Pilsbry assigned six species to the genus Samoana.