Dyakia (gastropod)

Dyakia (gastropod)
Dyakia
shell of Dyakia salangana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Dyakioidea
Family: Dyakiidae
Genus: Dyakia
Godwin-Austen, 1891[1]
Diversity
22 species[2]

Dyakiia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae.

Dyakia is the type genus of the family Dyakiidae.[3]

Species

The genus Dyakia include 22[2] species:

  • Dyakia clypeus (Mousson, 1857)
  • Dyakia euconus Sykes, 1905[4]
  • Dyakia granaria (Bock, 1881)[4]
  • Dyakia kintana (De Morgan, 1885)
  • Dyakia mackensiana (Souleyet, 1841)
  • Dyakia hugonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) - the type species
  • Dyakia perstriata Sykes, 1905[4]
  • Dyakia? retrorsa[5]
  • Dyakia rumphii (Von Den Busch, 1842)
  • Dyakia salangana (Martens, 1883)
  • Dyakia sannio (Pfeiffer, 1854)

Synonyms:

  • Dyakia striata is a synonym for Quantula striata, the only known terrestrial gastropod to emit light[6]

References

  1. ^ Godwin-Austen H. H. (1891) "On a collection of Land-shells made In Borneo by Mr. A. Everett, with Descriptions of supposed new species. Part II. Zonitidae and Helicidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1891: 22-47, p. 29.
  2. ^ a b 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 55(2): 363-369. PDF
  3. ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
  4. ^ a b c Sykes E. R. (1905). "On three species of Dyakia from Western Sumatra". 227-228.
  5. ^ http://www.archive.org/stream/molluscatestacel00blaniala#page/300/
  6. ^ Isobe M., Uyakul D., Goto T. & Counsilman J. J. (April/June 1988) "Dyakia bioluminescence - 1. Bioluminescence and fluorescence spectra of the land snail, D. striata". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence 2(2): 73 - 79. doi:10.1002/bio.1170020204, PubMed.

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