Philonesia Explained

Philonesia is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae.^[1]

Subtaxa

Philonesia has the following subgenera, species, and subspecies:^[2]

• Aa H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia abeillei (Ancey), 1889
  • Philonesia gouveiana H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia mapulehuae H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia sericans (Ancey), 1889
  • Philonesia waiheensis H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species
• Haleakala H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia guavarum H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia hahakeae H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia indefinita (Ancey), 1889
  • Philonesia interjecta H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia pusilla H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia turgida (Ancey), 1890
    • Philonesia turgida diducta H.B.Baker, 1940 – type subspecies
• Hiloaa H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia hiloi H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species
  • Philonesia piihonuae H.B.Baker, 1940
• Kipua H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia arenofunus H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia chamissoi (Pfeiffer, 1855 – type species
• Mauka H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia polita H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia similaris H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia welchi H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species
• Nesarion H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia tenuissima H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species
    • Philonesia tenuissima obesoir H.B.Baker, 1940
    • Philonesia tenuissima tahuatae H.B.Baker, 1940
• Nukupiena H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia inflata H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia ordinaria H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species
• Oafatua H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia contigua Garrett, 1887
  • Philonesia fatuhivae H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia lenta Garrett), 1887
  • Philonesia micra H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia pura Garrett, 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 (Gould), 1846
    • Philonesia cicercula boettgeriana (Ancey), 1889
  • Philonesia cryptoportica (Gould), 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 Cooke 1940
  • Philonesia grandis H.B.Baker, 1940 – type species
  • Philonesia parva H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia palawai H.B.Baker, 1940
• Pitcairnia H.B.Baker, 1940
  • Philonesia filiceti Beck, 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
  • Philonesia pertenuis (Gould), 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

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Baker. Horace Burrington. Horace Burrington Baker. Zonitid snails from Pacific islands. Part 2 Hawaiian Genera of Microcystinae. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin. 20 January 1940. 165. 105–201. 19 March 2018. English. 0005-9439. 256562754.