Diaphera cumingiana is a species of air-breathing

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

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in the family

Diapheridae Diapheridae is a family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Streptaxoidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Diapheridae Panha & Naggs, 2010. Acce ...

.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)". ''

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'' 160: 1-16. . ''Diaphera cumingiana'' is the

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of the genus ''

Diaphera Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www ...

''. The specific name ''cumingiana'' is in honor of the English naturalist

Hugh Cuming Hugh Cuming (14 February 1791 – 10 August 1865) was an England, English collecting, collector who was interested in natural history, particularly in conchology and botany. He has been described as the "Prince of Collectors". Born in England, he ...

. Pfeiffer L. (1862). "Die Gattung ''Cylindrella'' Pfr. in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen". Verlag von Bauer und Raspe, Julius Merz, Nürnberg
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Distribution

The type locality of ''Diaphera cumingiana'' is the

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Diapheridae Gastropods described in 1845 {{Diapheridae-stub