Diaphera

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Diaphera
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Drawings showing apertural, umbilical and abapertural views of a shell of Diaphera cumingiana
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Diaphera

Albers, 1850 [1]
Diversity [2]
more than 50 species
Synonyms
  • Cylindrella (Diaphera)Albers, 1850 (original rank)
  • DiaphoraMartens, 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

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

Species

There more than 50 species in the genus Diaphera including:

Synonym

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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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 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

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