Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing

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pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

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s in the family

Diapheridae Diapheridae is a family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Streptaxoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Diapheridae Panha & Naggs, 2010. Acces ...

.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 2020-10-21Sutcharit 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)". ''

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of the family Diapheridae. The genus ''Diaphera'' is generally poorly known.

Distribution

The distribution of ''Diaphera'' includes

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Species

There more than 50 species in the genus ''Diaphera'' including: * '' Diaphera anctostoma'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895) * ''

Diaphera aptycha Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Möllendorff, 1895) * '' Diaphera brevicollis'' (Blanford, 1899) * '' Diaphera canaliculata'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896) * '' Diaphera cardiostoma'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894) * '' Diaphera connectens'' Bruggen, 1974 * ''

Diaphera cristatella Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Möllendorff, 1896) * ''

Diaphera cumingiana Diaphera cumingiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Diapheridae.Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ' ...

'' Pfeiffer, 1845 - type species of the genus ''Diaphera'' * ''

Diaphera cuspidata Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Möllendorff, 1895) * ''

Diaphera cylindrelloidea Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Stoliczka, 1871) * ''

Diaphera cylindrica Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895) * ''

Diaphera densecostulata Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Möllendorff, 1901) * ''

Diaphera devians Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Möllendorff, 1890) * ''

Diaphera dicraspedia Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Möllendorff, 1898) * ''

Diaphera dilophia Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895) * ''

Diaphera eulophia Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www. ...

'' (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 Diaphera is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diaphera Albers, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine S ...

'' (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 * '' Diaphera quadrasi'' (Möllendorff, 1887) * '' Diaphera samarica'' (Möllendorff, 1896) * '' Diaphera saurini'' Benthem Jutting, 1962 * '' Diaphera seatoni'' (Beddome, 1891) * '' 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

External links

Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Enslin. 262 pp

Albers, J. C.; Martens, E. von. (1860). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet von Joh. Christ. Albers. Ed. 2. Pp. i-xviii, 1-359. Leipzig: Engelman

Páll-Gergely, B., Hunyadi, A., Grego, J., Sajan, S., Tripathy, B. & Chen, Z.-Y. [Zheyu]. (2020). A review of the Diapheridae (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Streptaxoidea), with special emphasis on India and Myanmar. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 68: 682–718
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