Samoana oreas

Samoana oreas, common name the "Polynesian tree snail", is a species of tropical, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Partulidae. This species is endemic to Ra'ivāvae, Austral Islands, French Polynesia.[1]

Samoana oreas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Partuloidea
Family:
Partulidae
Genus:
Samoana
Species:
S. oreas
Binomial name
Samoana oreas
Crampton & Cooke, 1953

References
  1. Coote, T. (2009). "Samoana oreas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2014.


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