Palaina

Palaina is a genus of minute land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Diplommatinidae. [2]

Palaina
Shell of Palaina tuberosa (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Diplommatinidae
Genus:	Palaina Semper, 1865[1]
Type species
Diplommatina macgillivrayi L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Synonyms[2]
Anostomella E. von Martens, 1867 Diplommatina (Palaina) O. Semper, 1865 Diplommatina (Pseudopalaina) Möllendorff, 1897 Eupalaina Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898 Macropalaina Möllendorff, 1897 Palaina (Macropalaina) Möllendorff, 1897 (junior synonym) Palaina (Palaina) O. Semper, 1865· accepted, alternate representation Pupa (Anostomella) E. von Martens, 1867 Pupoidea Pease, 1865

Species

Species in the genus Palaina include:

• Palaina albata
• Palaina dimorpha
• Palaina dohrni
• Palaina doliolum
• Palaina kubaryi
• Palaina moussoni
• Palaina ovatula
• Palaina patula
• Palaina platycheilus
• Palaina pupa
• Palaina pusilla
• Palaina quadrasi (Möllendorff, 1887)
• Palaina rubella
• Palaina scalarina
• Palaina strigata
• Palaina striolata
• Palaina taeniolata
• Palaina tuberosa (Mousson, 1870)
• Palaina wilsoni
• Palaina xiphidium

References

1. Semper (1865). J. Conchyliol. 13: 291.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Palaina O. Semper, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818445 on 2020-10-22

• Yamazaki, K.; Yamazaki, M.; Ueshima, R. (2013). Systematic review of diplommatinid land snails (Caenogastropoda, Diplommatinidae) endemic to the Palau Islands.(1) Generic classification and revision of Hungerfordia species with highly developed axial ribs. Zootaxa. 3743(1), 1-71

External links

• Semper O. (1865). Notice préliminaire sur la famille des Diplommatinacées. Journal de Conchyliologie. 13: 289-294
• Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1897). Neue Landschnecken von Java. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 29(7-8): 57–72, 89–97
• Pease, W. H. (1865). Descriptions of new species of Phaneropneumona, inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology. 1(4): 287-291.
• Martens, E. von. (1867). Die Landschnecken. Die Preussische Expedition nach Ost-Asien. Nach amtlichen Quellen. Zoologischer Teil. Zweiter Band: XII + 447, 22 plates; Königliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei, Berlin
• Kobelt W. (1902). Das Tierreich. Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen. 16. Lieferung. Mollusca. Cyclophoridae. Das Tierreich. XXXIX + 662 pp., 1 map. [July. Berlin (R. Friedländer).]
• Iredale, T. (1944). The land Mollusca of Lord Howe Island. The Australian Zoologist. 10(3): 299-334.