''Dioryx'' is a
genus 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 in the family
Alycaeidae
Alycaeidae is a taxonomic family of small to large tropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Alycaeidae W. T. Blanford, 1864. Accessed thro ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Dioryx Benson, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996199 on 2020-10-21] It was formerly considered a
subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
of ''
Alycaeus
''Alycaeus'' is a genus of small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Cyclophoridae. It is the type genus of the subfamily Alycaeinae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Alycaeus Gray, 18 ...
''.
Species
Species within the genus ''Dioryx'' include:
* ''
Dioryx amphora''
(Benson, 1856)
* ''
Dioryx bacca''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1863)
* ''
Dioryx cariniger''
Möllendorff, 1897
* ''
Dioryx compactus''
(Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
* ''
Dioryx dautzenbergi''
Páll-Gergely, 2017
* ''
Dioryx distortus''
(Haines, 1855)
* ''
Dioryx dongiensis''
Varga, 1972
* ''
Dioryx feddenianus
''Dioryx'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails in the family Alycaeidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Dioryx Benson, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&i ...
''
(Theobald, 1870)
* ''
Dioryx globulosus''
(Godwin-Austen, 1914)
* ''
Dioryx globulus
''Dioryx'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails in the family Alycaeidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Dioryx Benson, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&i ...
''
(Möllendorff, 1885)
* ''
Dioryx kobeltianus''
(Möllendorff, 1874)
* ''
Dioryx menglunensis''
D.-N. Chen & G.-Q. Zhang, 1998
* ''
Dioryx messageri
''Dioryx'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails in the family Alycaeidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Dioryx Benson, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id ...
''
(Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
* ''
Dioryx monadicus''
(Heude, 1890)
* ''
Dioryx pilula''
(Gould, 1859)
* ''
Dioryx pocsi''
Varga, 1972
* ''
Dioryx requiescens''
(J. Mabille, 1887)
* ''
Dioryx rosea''
(Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
* ''
Dioryx setchuanensis''
(Heude, 1885)
* ''
Dioryx swinhoei''
(H. Adams, 1866)
* ''
Dioryx urceolus
''Dioryx'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails in the family Alycaeidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Dioryx Benson, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&i ...
''
(Godwin-Austen, 1914)
* ''
Dioryx urnula
''Dioryx'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails in the family Alycaeidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Dioryx Benson, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&i ...
''
(Benson, 1853)
* ''
Dioryx varius''
(Godwin-Austen, 1914)
References
* Bavay, A. & Dautzenberg, P., 1900. Description de coquilles nouvelles de l'Indo-Chine (2ème partie). Journal de Conchyliologie 48: 435-460
* Bavay, A. & Dautzenberg, P., 1900. Diagnose de nouveaux mollusques d'Indo-Chine. Journal de Conchyliologie 48: 108-122
* Fischer-Piette, E., 1950. Liste des types décrits dans le Journal de Conchyliologie et conservés dans la collection de ce journal (avec planches)(suite). Journal de Conchyliologie 90: 149-180
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
* Inkhavilay K., Sutcharit C., Bantaowong U., Chanabun R., Siriwut W., Srisonchai R., Srisonchai A., Jirapatrasilp P. & Panha S. , 2019. ''Annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs from Laos (Mollusca, Gastropoda)''. ZooKeys 834: 1-166
Alycaeidae
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