Dyakia (gastropod)

Dyakia
Dyakia janus in Malaysia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Dyakiidae
Genus:	Dyakia Godwin-Austen, 1891 [1]
Diversity [2]
22 species

Dyakia 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 chlorosoma Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
• Dyakia clypeus (Mousson, 1857)
• Dyakia densestriata Schepman, 1896 ^[4]
• Dyakia euconus Sykes, 1905 ^[5]
• Dyakia granaria (Bock, 1881) ^[5]
• Dyakia janus (Beck, 1837)
• Dyakia kintana (De Morgan, 1885)
• Dyakia mackensiana (Souleyet, 1841)
• Dyakia moluensis Godwin-Austen, 1891
• Dyakia hugonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) - the type species
• Dyakia perstriata Sykes, 1905 ^[5]
• Dyakia? retrorsa ^[6]
• 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 ^[7]

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. 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) Archived July 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine : 363-369. PDF
3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
4. Schepman M. M. (1896). "The Mollusca of the Dutch Scientific Borneo-Expedition, with description of the new species". Notes from the Leyden Museum 17: 145-162, plate 2-4.
5. Sykes E. R. (1905). "On three species of Dyakia from Western Sumatra". 227-228.
6. "Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae". 1908.
7. Isobe, M; Uyakul, D; Goto, T; Counsilman, J. J. (1988). "Dyakia bioluminescence--1. Bioluminescence and fluorescence spectra of the land snail, D. Striata". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 2 (2): 73–9. doi:10.1002/bio.1170020204. PMID   3213594..

External links

• http://malacos.chez.com/htm/J78G7.HTM