Diaphera cumingiana
| Diaphera cumingiana | |
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| Drawing of apertural, umbilical and abapertural view of the shell of Diaphera cumingiana. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Diapheridae |
| Genus: | Diaphera |
| Species: | D. cumingiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Diaphera cumingiana (Pfeiffer, 1845) | |
| Synonyms | |
| Cylindrella cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845 | |
Diaphera cumingiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Diapheridae.[1]
Diaphera cumingiana is the type species of the genus Diaphera.[1]
The specific name cumingiana is in honor of the English naturalist Hugh Cuming.[2]
Distribution
[edit]The type locality of Diaphera cumingiana is the Philippines.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ (in German) Pfeiffer L. (1862). "Die Gattung Cylindrella Pfr. in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen". Verlag von Bauer und Raspe, Julius Merz, Nürnberg. page 74. plate 6, figure 16-20.