Samoana

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title: "Samoana" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["samoana", "partulidae", "taxonomy-articles-created-by-polbot"] description: "Genus of gastropods" topic_path: "general/samoana" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoana" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Samoana_conica_31676974.jpg | image_caption = Samoana conica | taxon = Samoana | authority = Pilsbry, 1909 | type_species = Partula canalis | type_species_authority = Mousson, 1865 | synonyms_ref = | 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 | display_parents = 3

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 (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) ;Synonyms:
• 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:

|label1=Partulidae |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=Partula |2={{clade |label1 = Samoana |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=Samoana diaphana |2=Samoana burchi |2=Samoana attenuata |2=Eua

Description

The genus Samoana was defined by American malacologist Henry Augustus Pilsbry in Manual of Conchology in 1909: 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.

References

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References

1. [[Henry Augustus Pilsbry. Pilsbry H. A.]] (1909). In: [[George Washington Tryon. Tryon G. W.]] & Pilsbry H. A. (1909) ''[[Manual of Conchology]]'', Volume 20. ''Caecilioides'', ''Clessula'' and Partulidae. Index to vols. XVI. - XX. (2)'''20''': [https://archive.org/stream/manualofconcholo20tryorich#page/164/mode/2up 165], 263.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. ''Samoana'' Pilsbry, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=884909 on 2022-04-30
3. [http://www.islandbiodiversity.com/crampton.htm Gerlach, J. (2016) Icons of Evolution - Pacific island tree snails, family Partulidae. Phelsuma Press, Cambridge]
4. Lee T., [[John B. Burch. Burch J. B.]], Coote T., Pearce-Kelly P., Hickman C., Meyer J.-Y. & Foighil D. O. (18 August 2009). "Moorean tree snail survival revisited: a multi-island genealogical perspective". ''[[BMC Evolutionary Biology]]'' '''9''': 204. {{doi. 10.1186/1471-2148-9-204

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