''Philonesia'' is a

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of air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

s or semislugs,

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the family

Euconulidae Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea. This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails ...

.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

Subtaxa

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, 1887 **'' Philonesia fatuhivae'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia lenta''

), 1887 **'' Philonesia micra'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia pura''

, 1887 **'' Philonesia uahukae'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia uapouae'' H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species *'' Philonesia'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia ascendens'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia baldwini'' ( Ancey), 1889 **'' Philonesia cicercula'' (

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), 1846 ***'' Philonesia cicercula boettgeriana'' ( Ancey), 1889 **'' Philonesia cryptoportica'' (

), 1846 **'' Philonesia decepta'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia fallax'' H.B.Baker, 1940 ***'' Philonesia fallax popouwelae'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia glypha'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia hartmanni'' ( Ancey), 1889 ***'' Philonesia hartmanni palehuae'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia kauaiensis'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia kualii'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia konahuanui'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia maunalei'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia mokuleiae'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia oahuensis'' ( Ancey), 1889 ***'' Philonesia oahuensis depressula'' ( Ancey), 1889 **'' Philonesia perlucens'' ( Ancey), 1889 **'' Philonesia plicosa'' ( Ancey), 1889 **'' Philonesia striata'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia waimanaloi'' H.B.Baker, 1940 *'' Piena''

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1940 **'' Philonesia grandis'' H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species **'' Philonesia parva'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia palawai'' H.B.Baker, 1940 *''

Pitcairnia ''Pitcairnia'' is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae. It was named for William Pitcairn, Scottish physician and gardener (1711–1791). The genus ''Pitcairnia'' ranks as the second most prolific of the brome ...

'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia filiceti''

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, 1940 **'' Philonesia mangarevae'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia pitcairnensis'' H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species *'' Rapafila'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia tenuior'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia zimmermani'' H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species ***'' Philonesia zimmermani tautautui'' H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species *'' Uafatua'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia fusca'' ( Pease), 1868 **'' Philonesia helicarion'' H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species **'' Philonesia obliqua'' H.B.Baker, 1940 *'' Waihoua'' H.B.Baker, 1940 **'' Philonesia kaliella'' H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species *

incertae sedis or is a term used for a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...

**'' Philonesia pertenuis'' (

), 1846

References

* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017

External links

Sykes, E. R. (1900). Fauna Hawaiiensis. University Press, Cambridge. Volume II, Part IV, Mollusca: pp. 271–412, pls 11, 12
Gastropod genera Molluscs of Oceania Gastropods described in 1900 Euconulidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Euconulidae-stub