''Diastole'' is a
genus
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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 or semi-
slugs
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...
,
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 family
Euconulidae
Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea.
This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails.
...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diastole Gude, 1913. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=875271 on 2020-10-21]
Species
Species in the genus ''Diastole'' include
* ''
Diastole bryani''
H. B. Baker, 1938
* ''
Diastole conula''
(Pease, 1861)
* ''
Diastole exposita''
(Mousson, 1873)
* ''
Diastole fornicata''
(Ancey, 1889)
* ''
Diastole futunae''
H. B. Baker, 1938
* ''
Diastole glaucina''
Baker, 1938
* ''
Diastole lamellaxis''
Baker, 1938
* ''
Diastole lauae''
H. B. Baker, 1938
* ''
Diastole matafaoi
The Mount Matafao different snail, scientific name ''Diastole matafaoi'', was a species of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Euconulidae.
This species was endemic to American Samoa. ...
''
Baker, 1938,
Mount Matafao different snail
* ''
Diastole necrodes''
H. B. Baker, 1938
* ''
Diastole rurutui''
H. B. Baker, 1938
* ''
Diastole savaii''
Baker, 1938
* ''
Diastole schmeltziana
Diastole ( ) is the relaxed phase of the cardiac cycle when the chambers of the heart are re-filling with blood. The contrasting phase is systole when the heart chambers are contracting. Atrial diastole is the relaxing of the atria, and ventricu ...
''
(Mousson, 1865)
* ''
Diastole simonei''
Thach & F. Huber, 2017 (taxon inquirendum)
* ''
Diastole subcarinata''
Solem, 1959
* ''
Diastole tenuistriata''
Preece, 1995
* ''
Diastole tongana''
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
References
* Baker, H. B. (1938). Zonitid snails from Pacific Islands. Part 1. Southern genera of Microcystinae. Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin. 158: 1–102, 20 pls.
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Bishop museum guide to Samoan land snails, ''Diastole'' species with images and other infoGude, G. K. (1913). Definitions of further new genera of Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10: 389-391 Iredale, T. (1913). The land Mollusca of the Kermadec islands. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10(6): 364-388, pl. 18
Gastropod genera
Molluscs of Oceania
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