Sinoennea | |
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Shell of Sinoennea variabilis (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Streptaxoidea |
Family: | Diapheridae |
Genus: | Sinoennea Kobelt, 1904 [1] |
Type species | |
Pupa strophiodes | |
Other species | |
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Synonyms [2] | |
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Sinoennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae. [3] [2]
The name of the genus Sinoennea originates from Sino- (Chinese) + Ennea .
The distribution of Sinoennea includes South of India, Indochina, China (South of Yangtze River [4] and Taiwan [5] ), Malaysian Peninsula [6] [4] in Malaysia [3] and Thailand, [4] [3] Sumatra, Japan and South Korea. [3]
The shell of Sinoennea has 6-7 whorls. [3] The whorls are swelling. [4]
This genus used to belong to the families Streptaxidae [4] and Diapheridae, but the newest assigned it to the Family Enneinae. [3]
Species in the genus Sinoennea include: