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Diaphera

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Diaphera
Drawings showing apertural, umbilical and abapertural views of a shell of Diaphera cumingiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Diapheridae
Genus: Diaphera
Albers, 1850[1]
Diversity[2]
more than 50 species
Synonyms
  • Cylindrella (Diaphera) Albers, 1850 (original rank)
  • Diaphora Martens, 1860 (unjustified emendation of the original name)
  • Ennea (Diaphora) Martens, 1860 (unjustified emendation of the original name)
  • Gulella (Diaphora) Martens, 1860 (unjustified emendation to the original name)

Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.[3][2]

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

The genus Diaphera is generally poorly known.[2]

Distribution

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

Species

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There more than 50 species in the genus Diaphera including:

Synonym
  • Diaphera (Huttonella) kohllarseni Haas, 1936: synonym of Gulella kohllarseni (Haas, 1936) (original combination)

References

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  1. ^ (in 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 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.
  3. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762800 on 2020-10-21

Further reading

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  • Bruggen, A.C. van. (1974). Streptaxidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata) from Palawan, Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series C, 77(3): 272–282
  • 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.
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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