Partulina germana

Partulina germana
Shell of Partulina germana (original image)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinellidae
Genus: Partulina
Species:
P. germana
Binomial name
Partulina germana
(Newcomb, 1854)
Synonyms
  • Achatinella (Eburnella) germana Newcomb, 1854 alternative representation
  • Achatinella germana Newcomb, 1854 superseded combination
  • Partulina (Eburnella) germana (Newcomb, 1854) alternative representation

Partulina germana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae. This species was endemic to Hawaii in the United States.

Description

(Original description) The shell is dextral and ovately conical. There are six flatly convex whorls, and the aperture is ovate. The lip is acute and thickened internally. The columella is brown, short, and tubercular.

The shell is chestnut in colour, with fine, obsolete, darker transverse lines. A white band traverses the last sutural whorl and crosses the body whorl centrally. A broad white band surrounds the columella and fades into the aperture.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Hawaii and occurs on Maui.

References

  1. 1 2 Partulina germana (Newcomb, 1854). 25 October 2026. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ↑ Newcomb, W. (1854). "Descriptions of seventy·nine new species of Achatinella, (Swains.), a genus of pulmoniferous mollusks, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 21: 251. Retrieved 25 October 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.