Diaphera cumingiana

Diaphera cumingiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Diapheridae.[1]

Diaphera cumingiana
Drawing of apertural, umbilical and abapertural view of the 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
Species:
D. cumingiana
Binomial name
Diaphera cumingiana
(Pfeiffer, 1845)
Synonyms

Cylindrella cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845

Diaphera cumingiana is the type species of the genus Diaphera.[1]

The specific name cumingiana is in honor of the English naturalist Hugh Cuming.[2]

Distribution

The type locality of Diaphera cumingiana is the Philippines.[1]

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References
  1. 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.
  2. (in German) Pfeiffer L. (1862). "Die Gattung Cylindrella Pfr. in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen". Verlag von Bauer und Raspe, Julius Merz, Nürnberg. page 74. plate 6, figure 16-20.


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