Samoana strigata

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Samoana strigata
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Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Partuloidea
Family:
Genus:
Species:
S. strigata
Binomial name
Samoana strigata
Pease, 1868

Samoana strigata, common name the "Polynesian tree snail", is a species of tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Partulidae.

Distribution[]

This species is endemic to Nuku Hiva and Ua Huka, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Coote, T. (2009). "Samoana strigata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2014.


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