Newcombia

Newcombia is a genus of tropical tree-living air-breathing land snails, arboreal pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinellidae.

Not to be confused with Newcomb's snail, an endemic Hawaiian snail in the family Lymnaeidae.

Newcombia
Newcombia cumingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Achatinelloidea
Family:
Achatinellidae
Subfamily:
Achatinellinae
Genus:
Newcombia

Diversity[2]
7 species

The Hawaiian tree snail genus Newcombia is a member of the family Achatinellidae and the endemic Hawaiian subfamily Achatinellinae.[2] The genus is endemic to the islands of Maui and Molokai, Hawaii.[2] Six of the known species were endemic to Molokai (Newcombia canaliculata, Newcombia lirata, Newcombia perkinsi, Newcombia pfeifferi, Newcombia philippiana, and Newcombia sulcata), and only one species, Newcombia cumingi, is known from the island of Maui.[2] Henry Augustus Pilsbry and Charles Montague Cooke, Jr. (1912-1914)[3] is the most recent and accepted taxonomy for this genus.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Newcombia include:

†=extinct

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference[2]

  1. Pfeiffer L. K. G. (1854). Malak. Bl. 1: 117.
  2. Wada L. (2008). "U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE SPECIES ASSESSMENT AND LISTING PRIORITY ASSIGNMENT FORM. SCIENTIFIC NAME: Newcombia cumingi". Pacific Islands Fish & Wildlife Office. 13 pp. PDF.
  3. Pilsbry H. A. & Cooke C. M. Jr. (1912-1914). Achatinellidae. Manual of Conchology (2)21.
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