Diaphera

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Diaphera
Drawings showing apertural, umbilical and abapertural views of a shell of Diaphera cumingiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
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 a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.[3][2]

Diaphera is the type genus of the family Diapheridae.[2]

The genus Diaphera is generally poorly known.[2]

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:

Synonym
  • Diaphera (Huttonella) kohllarseni Haas, 1936: synonym of Gulella kohllarseni (Haas, 1936) (original combination)

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