Sinoennea

Sinoennea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Diapheridae
Genus: Sinoennea
Kobelt, 1904[1]
Diversity
Five

Sinoennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.[2]

Etymology

The name of the genus Sinoennea originates from Sino- (Chinese) + Ennea.

Distribution

The distribution of Sinoennea includes South of India, Indochina, China (South of Yangtze River[3] and Taiwan[4]), Malaysian Peninsula[5][3] in Malaysia[2] and Thailand,[3][2] Sumatra, Japan and South Korea.[2]

Description

The shell of Sinoennea has 6-7 whorls.[2] The whorls are swelling.[3]

Taxonomy

This genus used to belong to the families Streptaxidae[3] and Diapheridae, but the newest assigned it to the Family Enneinae.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Sinoennea include:

  • Sinoennea duplicaria[4]
  • Sinoennea iwakawa yakushimae[4]
  • Sinoennea kanchingensis Tomlin, 1948[2]
  • Sinoennea longtangshanensis Zhang et al., 2015[3]
  • Sinoennea ridley (Piele, 1926)[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kobelt W. (1904). Nachr. Bl. dtsch. malakozool. Ges. 36: 27; (1904). Syst. Conch. Cab., Lief. 492: 142.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Zhang, Weihong; Cheng, Zhangfeng; Chen, Deniu (2015). "A New Species of the Genus Sinoennea Kobelt from Zhejiang Province, China (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora, Streptaxidae)". Sichuan Journal of Zoology (in Chinese). 34 (1): 59–61. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-7083.2015.01.009.
  4. 1 2 3 "中華草包蝸牛屬 (Sinoennea)". 臺灣陸生蝸牛資訊網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  5. ↑ Berry, A. J. (1963). "The anatomy of two Malayan limestone hill Streptaxidae, Sinoennea kanchingensis Tomlin and Oophana diaphanopepla van Benthem Jutting, with special reference to the genital system". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 35: 139–150. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064911.


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