Diaphera

Diaphera
Diaphera
Drawings showing apertural, umbilical and abapertural views of a shell of Diaphera cumingiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Diapheridae
Genus: Diaphera
Albers, 1850[1]
Diversity
39 species[2]

Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.[2]

Diaphera is the type genus of the family Diapheridae.[2]

The genus Diaphera is generally poorly known.[2]

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Distribution

The distribution of Diaphera includes South-East Asia: Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines.[2]

Species

There are 39[2] species in the genus Diaphera include:

  • Diaphera brevicollis (Blanford, 1899)[2]
  • Diaphera canaliculata (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)[2]
  • Diaphera cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845 - type species of the genus Diaphera[2]
  • Diaphera cylindrelloidea (Stoliczka, 1871)[2]
  • Diaphera prima Panha, 2010[2]
  • Diaphera saurini Benthem Jutting, 1962[2]
  • Diaphera seatoni (Beddome, 1891)[2]

References

  1. ^ (German) Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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 160: 1-16. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.

Further reading

  • Bruggen A. C van (1975). "New data on Cylindrella cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845, type species of the genus Diaphera Albers, 1850 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)". Proceedings of the Koninklÿke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam series C 78: 167-171.
  • Vermeulen J. J. (1990). "Notes on the non marine mollusks of the island of Borneo 1. The genus Diaphera (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae)". Basteria 54: 159-165.

External links

Diaphera at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.


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