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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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Species: | S. gonochila
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| Samoana gonochila (L. Pfeiffer, 1847)
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Distribution
editThis species is endemic to Nuku Hiva and Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Coote, T. (2009). "Samoana strigata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
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