Diaphera

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

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[2]
39 species

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

The genus Diaphera is generally poorly known.[2]

Distribution

The distribution of Diaphera includes South-East Asia: Myanmar, 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]
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References
  1. (in German) Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.
  2. 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.


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