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Diaphera
Drawings showing apertural, umbilical and abapertural views of a shell of Diaphera cumingiana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Diapheridae
Genus:	Diaphera Albers, 1850
Diversity
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.

Diaphera is the type genus of the family Diapheridae.

The genus Diaphera is generally poorly known.

Distribution

The distribution of Diaphera includes South-East Asia: Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines.

Species

There more than 50 species in the genus Diaphera including:

• Diaphera anctostoma (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1895)
• Diaphera aptycha (Möllendorff, 1895)
• Diaphera brevicollis (Blanford, 1899)
• Diaphera canaliculata (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1896)
• Diaphera cardiostoma (Quadras & Möllendorff, 1894)
• Diaphera connectens Bruggen, 1974
• Diaphera cristatella (Möllendorff, 1896)
• Diaphera cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845 - type species of the genus Diaphera
• Diaphera cuspidata (Möllendorff, 1895)
• Diaphera cylindrelloidea (Stoliczka, 1871)
• 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
• 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

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 16, 2017

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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