Diaphera cumingiana is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Diapheridae.[1]
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
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Binomial name | |
Diaphera cumingiana (Pfeiffer, 1845)
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Synonyms | |
Cylindrella cumingiana Pfeiffer, 1845 |
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
editThe 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.