Palaina

Palaina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily:	Cyclophoroidea
Family:	Diplommatinidae
Genus:	Palaina Semper, 1865
Type species
Diplommatina macgillivrayi L. Pfeiffer, 1855
Synonyms
Anostomella E. von Martens, 1867 Diplommatina (Palaina) O. Semper, 1865 Diplommatina (Pseudopalaina) Möllendorff, 1897 Eupalaina Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898 Macropalaina Möllendorff, 1897 Palaina (Macropalaina) Möllendorff, 1897 (junior synonym) Palaina (Palaina) O. Semper, 1865· accepted, alternate representation Pupa (Anostomella) E. von Martens, 1867 Pupoidea Pease, 1865

Palaina is a genus of minute land snails with opercula, terrestrial gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Diplommatinidae.

Species

Species in the genus Palaina include:

• Palaina albata
• Palaina dimorpha
• Palaina dohrni
• Palaina doliolum
• Palaina kubaryi
• Palaina moussoni
• Palaina ovatula
• Palaina patula
• Palaina platycheilus
• Palaina pupa
• Palaina pusilla
• Palaina quadrasi (Möllendorff, 1887)
• Palaina rubella
• Palaina scalarina
• Palaina strigata
• Palaina striolata
• Palaina taeniolata
• Palaina wilsoni
• Palaina xiphidium