Diaphera

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

Diaphera
Drawings showing apertural, umbilical and abapertural views of a 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

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 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:

  • Diaphera anctostoma (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera aptycha (Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera brevicollis (Blanford, 1899)[2]
  • Diaphera canaliculata (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)[2]
  • Diaphera cardiostoma (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
  • Diaphera connectens Bruggen, 1974
  • Diaphera cristatella (Möllendorff, 1896)
  • Diaphera cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845 - type species of the genus Diaphera[2]
  • Diaphera cuspidata (Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera cylindrelloidea (Stoliczka, 1871)[2]
  • Diaphera cylindrica (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera densecostulata (Möllendorff, 1901)
  • Diaphera devians (Möllendorff, 1890)
  • Diaphera dicraspedia (Möllendorff, 1898)
  • Diaphera dilophia (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera eulophia (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera euryomphala (Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera eutrachela (Möllendorff, 1890)
  • Diaphera helenae Vermeulen, 1990
  • Diaphera hidalgoi (Möllendorff, 1888)
  • Diaphera homalogyra (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera kobelti (Möllendorff, 1898)
  • Diaphera kochiana (Möllendorff, 1888)
  • Diaphera lini Z.-Y. Chen & Páll-Gergely, 2020
  • Diaphera locardi (Hidalgo, 1890)
  • Diaphera macrostoma (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
  • Diaphera moellendorffi (Hidalgo, 1889)
  • Diaphera morleti (Hidalgo, 1889)
  • Diaphera nitidula (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
  • Diaphera obliquapex Bruggen, 1974
  • Diaphera otostoma (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
  • Diaphera palawanica Bruggen, 1974
  • Diaphera pleistogyra (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
  • Diaphera polita Páll-Gergely, 2020
  • Diaphera porrecta (Martens, 1884)
  • Diaphera prima Panha, 2010[2]
  • Diaphera quadrasi (Möllendorff, 1887)
  • Diaphera samarica (Möllendorff, 1896)
  • Diaphera saurini Benthem Jutting, 1962[2]
  • Diaphera seatoni (Beddome, 1891)[2]
  • Diaphera sericina (Möllendorff, 1887)
  • Diaphera solenidium (Möllendorff, 1896)
  • Diaphera strangulata (Möllendorff, 1894)
  • Diaphera strophostoma (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)
  • Diaphera telescopium (Möllendorff, 1896)
  • Diaphera torta (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
  • Diaphera truncatella (Möllendorff, 1896)
  • Diaphera tuba (Möllendorff, 1887)
  • Diaphera turbanophora Páll-Gergely & Grego, 2020
  • Diaphera unicristata (Möllendorff, 1894)
  • Diaphera wilfordii Dance, 1970
Synonym
  • Diaphera (Huttonella) kohllarseni Haas, 1936: synonym of Gulella kohllarseni (Haas, 1936) (original combination)

References
  1. (in German) Albers J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.
  2. 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
  • 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 16th, 2017


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