Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing
land snail
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terrestrial pulmonate
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s 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 ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762800 on 2020-10-21] [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
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''Diaphera'' is the
type genus of the family Diapheridae.
The genus ''Diaphera'' is generally poorly known.
Distribution
The distribution of ''Diaphera'' includes
South-East Asia:
Myanmar
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,
Thailand
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,
Cambodia
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,
the Philippines
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.
Species
There more than 50 species in the genus ''Diaphera'' including:
* ''
Diaphera anctostoma'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera aptycha'' (Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera brevicollis'' (Blanford, 1899)
* ''
Diaphera canaliculata'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)
* ''
Diaphera cardiostoma'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Diaphera connectens
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 ...
'' Bruggen, 1974
* ''
Diaphera cristatella'' (Möllendorff, 1896)
* ''
Diaphera cumingiana
Diaphera cumingiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Diapheridae.Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ' ...
'' Pfeiffer, 1845 - type species of the genus ''Diaphera''
* ''
Diaphera cuspidata'' (Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera cylindrelloidea'' (Stoliczka, 1871)
* ''
Diaphera cylindrica'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera densecostulata'' (Möllendorff, 1901)
* ''
Diaphera devians'' (Möllendorff, 1890)
* ''
Diaphera dicraspedia'' (Möllendorff, 1898)
* ''
Diaphera dilophia'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera eulophia'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera euryomphala'' (Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera eutrachela'' (Möllendorff, 1890)
* ''
Diaphera helenae'' Vermeulen, 1990
* ''
Diaphera hidalgoi'' (Möllendorff, 1888)
* ''
Diaphera homalogyra'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera kobelti'' (Möllendorff, 1898)
* ''
Diaphera kochiana'' (Möllendorff, 1888)
* ''
Diaphera lini'' Z.-Y. Chen & Páll-Gergely, 2020
* ''
Diaphera locardi'' (Hidalgo, 1890)
* ''
Diaphera macrostoma'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Diaphera moellendorffi'' (Hidalgo, 1889)
* ''
Diaphera morleti'' (Hidalgo, 1889)
* ''
Diaphera nitidula'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Diaphera obliquapex'' Bruggen, 1974
* ''
Diaphera otostoma
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://ww ...
'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Diaphera palawanica'' Bruggen, 1974
* ''
Diaphera pleistogyra'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
* ''
Diaphera polita'' Páll-Gergely, 2020
* ''
Diaphera porrecta'' (Martens, 1884)
* ''
Diaphera prima'' Panha, 2010
* ''
Diaphera quadrasi'' (Möllendorff, 1887)
* ''
Diaphera samarica'' (Möllendorff, 1896)
* ''
Diaphera saurini
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 ...
'' Benthem Jutting, 1962
* ''
Diaphera seatoni'' (Beddome, 1891)
* ''
Diaphera sericina'' (Möllendorff, 1887)
* ''
Diaphera solenidium'' (Möllendorff, 1896)
* ''
Diaphera strangulata'' (Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Diaphera strophostoma'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)
* ''
Diaphera telescopium'' (Möllendorff, 1896)
* ''
Diaphera torta'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Diaphera truncatella'' (Möllendorff, 1896)
* ''
Diaphera tuba'' (Möllendorff, 1887)
* ''
Diaphera turbanophora'' Páll-Gergely & Grego, 2020
* ''
Diaphera unicristata'' (Möllendorff, 1894)
* ''
Diaphera wilfordii'' Dance, 1970
;Synonym:
* ''Diaphera (Huttonella) kohllarseni'' Haas, 1936: synonym of ''
Gulella kohllarseni
''Gulella'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gulella L. Pfeiffer, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spec ...
'' (Haas, 1936) (original combination)
References
Further reading
* Bruggen, A.C. van. (1974). Streptaxidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata) from Palawan, Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series C, 77(3): 272–282
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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.
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
External links
Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 ppAlbers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: EngelmanPáll-Gergely, B., Hunyadi, A., Grego, J., Sajan, S., Tripathy, B. & Chen, Z.-Y. [Zheyu (2020). A review of the Diapheridae (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Streptaxoidea), with special emphasis on India and Myanmar. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 68: 682–718]
External links
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Diapheridae
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