''Dyakia'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
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s,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
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
Dyakiidae
Dyakiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Some of the species in this family are sin ...
.
''Dyakia'' is the
type genus
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Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal f ...
of the family Dyakiidae.
Species
The genus ''Dyakia'' include 22
[Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the Phu Phan range, northeastern Thailand". '']Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
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55(2)
: 363-369
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/ref> species:
*'' Dyakia chlorosoma'' Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
* '' Dyakia clypeus'' (Mousson, 1857)
* '' Dyakia densestriata'' Schepman, 1896
* '' Dyakia euconus'' Sykes, 1905[ Sykes E. R. (1905). "On three species of ''Dyakia'' from Western Sumatra"]
227
228.
* '' Dyakia? retrorsa''
* '' Dyakia rumphii'' (Von Den Busch, 1842)
* '' Dyakia salangana'' (Martens, 1883)
* '' Dyakia sannio'' (Pfeiffer, 1854)
Synonyms:
* ''Dyakia striata'' is a synonym for ''Quantula striata
''Quantula striata'', also known as ''Dyakia striata'', is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing, tropical land snail. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusk in the family Dyakiidae. This species appears to be unique among terre ...
'', the only known terrestrial gastropod to emit light[.]
References
External links
* http://malacos.chez.com/htm/J78G7.HTM
Dyakiidae
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