''Oophana'' 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,
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 subfamily
Streptaxinae of the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.
Stre ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oophana Ancey, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877720 on 2021-11-09]
Distribution
Distribution of the genus ''Oophana'' include:
*
South-East Asia[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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'' 160: 1-16. .
Species
Species within the genus ''Oophana'' include:
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Oophana acuticarina''
van Benthem Jutting, 1961
* ''
Oophana atopospira''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Oophana balingensis
''Oophana'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Streptaxinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oophana Ancey, 1884. Accessed through: World Register ...
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(Tomlin, 1948)
* ''
Oophana bulbulus
''Oophana'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Streptaxinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oophana Ancey, 1884. Accessed thro ...
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(Morelet, 1862) - type species
* ''
Oophana diaphanopepla''
van Benthem Jutting
* ''
Oophana diplodon''
(Möllendorff, 1900)
* ''
Oophana eutropha''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Oophana elisa''
Gould, 1856
* ''
Oophana huberi''
Thach, 2018
* ''
Oophana michaui''
(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863)
* ''
Oophana pachyglottis''
(Möllendorff, 1900)
* ''
Oophana siamensis''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
* ''
Oophana striatula''
(Collinge, 1902)
* ''
Oophana thamnophila''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Oophana thuthaoae''
Thach, 2017[Thach N. N. (2017). New shells of Southeast Asia. Sea shells & Land snails. 48HrBooks Company. 128 pp., page 32, figures 379-381.]
* ''
Oophana tiomanensis'' Clements, 2006
[Clements R. (2006). "''Oophana tiomanensis'', a new streptaxid (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae) from Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia". '']The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the National University of Singapore. It covers the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of Southeast As ...
'' 54(1): 125-127
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References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.
* Van Bentham Jutting W. S. S. (1954). "The Malayan Streptaxidae of the genera ''Discartemon'' and ''Oophana''". ''
Bulletin of the Raffles Museum
''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the National University of Singapore. It covers the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of Southeast As ...
'' 25: 71–106
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External links
Ancey, C. F. (1884). Sur les divisions proposées dans le genre Streptaxis. Le Naturaliste. 6(50): 399
Streptaxidae
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