Philonesia is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae.[2]

Philonesia
Philonesia chamissoi specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Euconulidae
Genus: Philonesia
Sykes, 1900[1]
Type species
Microcystis baldwini
Ancey, 1889
Synonyms
  • Philonesia (Aa) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Haleakala) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Hilooa) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Kipua) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Mauka) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Nesarion) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Nukupiena) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Oafatua) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Philonesia) Sykes, 1900· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Piena) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Pitcairnia) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Rapafila) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Uafatua) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation
  • Philonesia (Waihoua) H. B. Baker, 1940· accepted, alternate representation

Subtaxa

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Philonesia has the following subgenera, species, and subspecies:[3]

References

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  1. ^ Sykes E. R. (1900). Fauna Hawaii. 2: 280.
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Philonesia Sykes, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996307 on 28 February 2021
  3. ^ Baker, Horace Burrington (20 January 1940). "Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 2 Hawaiian Genera of Microcystinae" (PDF). Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin (165): 105–201. ISSN 0005-9439. OCLC 256562754. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017
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