Diaphera
| Diaphera | |
|---|---|
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| Drawings showing apertural, umbilical and abapertural views of a shell of Diaphera cumingiana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Streptaxoidea |
| Family: | Diapheridae |
| Genus: | Diaphera Albers, 1850[1] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 39 species | |
Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.[2]
Diaphera is the type genus of the family Diapheridae.[2]
The genus Diaphera is generally poorly known.[2]
Distribution
The distribution of Diaphera includes South-East Asia: Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines.[2]
Species
There are 39[2] species in the genus Diaphera include:
- Diaphera brevicollis (Blanford, 1899)[2]
- Diaphera canaliculata (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)[2]
- Diaphera cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845 - type species of the genus Diaphera[2]
- Diaphera cylindrelloidea (Stoliczka, 1871)[2]
- Diaphera prima Panha, 2010[2]
- Diaphera saurini Benthem Jutting, 1962[2]
- Diaphera seatoni (Beddome, 1891)[2]
References
- ↑ (German) Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
Further reading
- Bruggen A. C van (1975). "New data on Cylindrella cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845, type species of the genus Diaphera Albers, 1850 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)". Proceedings of the Koninklÿke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam series C 78: 167-171.
- Vermeulen J. J. (1990). "Notes on the non marine mollusks of the island of Borneo 1. The genus Diaphera (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)". Basteria 54: 159-165.
External links
"Diaphera". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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