''Oophana'' is a
genus
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of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
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 ...
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the subfamily
Streptaxinae of the family
Streptaxidae
Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade
Stylommatophora.
Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.
Six Streptaxi ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oophana Ancey, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877720 on 9 November 2021]
Distribution
Distribution of the genus ''Oophana'' include:
*
South-East Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania. Southeast Asia i ...
[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
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'' 160: 1-16. .
Species
Species within the genus ''Oophana'' include:
* ''
Oophana acuticarina''
van Benthem Jutting, 1961
* ''
Oophana atopospira''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Oophana balingensis''
(Tomlin, 1948)
* ''
Oophana bulbulus
''Oophana'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, Terrestrial animal, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Streptaxinae of the family Streptaxidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oophana Ancey, 1884. Accessed thr ...
''
(Morelet, 1862) - type species
* ''
Oophana diaphanopepla''
van Benthem Jutting
* ''
Oophana diplodon''
(Möllendorff, 1900)
* ''
Oophana eutropha''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Oophana elisa''
Gould, 1856
* ''
Oophana huberi''
Thach, 2018
* ''
Oophana michaui''
(Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863)
* ''
Oophana pachyglottis''
(Möllendorff, 1900)
* ''
Oophana siamensis''
(L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
* ''
Oophana striatula''
(Collinge, 1902)
* ''
Oophana thamnophila''
van Benthem Jutting, 1954
* ''
Oophana thuthaoae''
Thach, 2017[Thach N. N. (2017). New shells of Southeast Asia. Sea shells & Land snails. 48HrBooks Company. 128 pp., page 32, figures 379-381.]
* ''
Oophana tiomanensis'' Clements, 2006
[Clements R. (2006). "''Oophana tiomanensis'', a new streptaxid (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae) from Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia". '']The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at the National University of Singapore.
Overview
It covers the taxonomy, ecology, and conservation of S ...
'' 54(1): 125-127
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References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017.
* Van Bentham Jutting W. S. S. (1954). "The Malayan Streptaxidae of the genera ''Discartemon'' and ''Oophana''". ''
Bulletin of the Raffles Museum'' 25: 71–106
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External links
Ancey, C. F. (1884). Sur les divisions proposées dans le genre Streptaxis. Le Naturaliste. 6(50): 399
Streptaxidae
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