Samoana inflata

Samoana inflata

Extinct (1990s or 2000s)  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Partulidae
Genus: Samoana
Species:
†S. inflata
Binomial name
†Samoana inflata
(Reeve, 1842)
Synonyms
  • Bulimus thersites L.Pfeiffer, 1842
  • Partula inflata Reeve, 1842

Samoana inflata was a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Partulidae. It was endemic to Hiva Oa and Tahuata in the Marquesas Islands and went extinct in the 1990s or 2000s.

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