| Meyer's Tree Snail | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Partulidae |
| Genus: | Partula |
| Species: | P. meyeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Partula meyeri J. B. Burch, 2007
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| Synonyms | |
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Samoana meyeri | |
Partula meyeri is a species of partulid within the genus Partula. The species is referred to as the Meyer's tree snail[1], and is endemic to Raiatea.
Distribution
editP. meyeri is only known from three specimens found on Mount Tefatua.[1]
Taxonomy
editOriginal description
editThe paper containing the original description is available here.
| The shell has a conical, evenly descending spire, evenly rounded whorls, and a relatively large aperture, the length of which is about 2/3 of the total shell length. The aperture is edentate, surrounded by a moderately expanded, only slightly thickened, lighter colored, peristome. The peristome is incomplete, not continuing on the parietal side. The color of the shell is brown. The shell is thin, translucent, allowing the melanin pigment pattern of the mantle to be clearly visible through the shell. The whorls are moderately rounded, and separated by modestly indented sutures. There is an umbilical chink formed by the expanded columellar lip, but no further opening. The shell surface is marked with close-set, prominent, indented, spiral striae, stronger on the penultimate and antepenultimate whorls, but becoming weaker on the ultimate whorl, except on the base (the umbilical area). |