Diapheridae

Diapheridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Streptaxoidea.

Diapheridae
Drawing of apertural, umbilical and abapertural views of a shell of Diaphera cumingiana.
Scientific classification
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Diapheridae

Panha & Naggs, 2010[1]
Diversity[1]
2 genera

Sutcharit et al. (2010)[1] established the new family Diapheridae within the superfamily Streptaxoidea in 2010.[1]

Genera

The family Diapheridae includes provisionally only two genera:[1]

References

  1. 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.


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