Diapheridae is a
family
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of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial 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 ...
mollusk
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s in the superfamily
Streptaxoidea
Streptaxoidea is a Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the suborder Achatinina of the order Stylommatophora.
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy
There have been reco ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Diapheridae Panha & Naggs, 2010. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762799 on 2021-06-19]
Sutcharit et al. (2010)
established the new family Diapheridae within the superfamily Streptaxoidea in 2010.
Genera
The family Diapheridae includes :
* ''Bruggennea''
Dance, 1972
* ''Diaphera''
Albers, 1850
* ''Laoennea''
Páll-Gergely, 2020
* ''Parasinoennea''
Z.-Y. Chen & Páll-Gergely, 2020
* ''Platycochlium''
Laidlaw, 1950
* ''Platylennea''
Páll-Gergely, 2020
* ''Pupennea''
Páll-Gergely, 2020
* ''Rowsonia''
Páll-Gergely, 2020
* ''Sinoennea''
Kobelt, 1904
* ''Tonkinia''
Mabille, 1887
;Synonym:
* ''Diaphora''
Martens, 1860 accepted as ''Diaphera''
Albers, 1850 (unjustified emendation of the original name)
References
External links
Páll-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]
Diapheridae,
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