Dyakia (gastropod)

Dyakia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae.

Dyakia
D. janus in Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:
Dyakioidea
Family:
Dyakiidae
Genus:
Dyakia

Diversity[2]
22 species

Dyakia is the type genus of the family Dyakiidae.[3]

Species

The genus Dyakia include 22[2] species:

  • Dyakia chlorosoma Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
  • Dyakia clypeus (Mousson, 1857)
  • Dyakia densestriata Schepman, 1896[4]
  • Dyakia euconus Sykes, 1905[5]
  • Dyakia granaria (Bock, 1881)[5]
  • Dyakia janus (Beck, 1837)
  • Dyakia kintana (De Morgan, 1885)
  • Dyakia mackensiana (Souleyet, 1841)
  • Dyakia moluensis Godwin-Austen, 1891
  • Dyakia hugonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) - the type species
  • Dyakia perstriata Sykes, 1905[5]
  • Dyakia? retrorsa[6]
  • Dyakia rumphii (Von Den Busch, 1842)
  • Dyakia salangana (Martens, 1883)
  • Dyakia sannio (Pfeiffer, 1854)

Synonyms:

  • Dyakia striata is a synonym for Quantula striata, the only known terrestrial gastropod to emit light[7]

References
  1. Godwin-Austen H. H. (1891) "On a collection of Land-shells made In Borneo by Mr. A. Everett, with Descriptions of supposed new species. Part II. Zonitidae and Helicidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1891: 22-47, p. 29.
  2. Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the Phu Phan range, northeastern Thailand". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2) Archived July 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine: 363-369. PDF
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Schepman M. M. (1896). "The Mollusca of the Dutch Scientific Borneo-Expedition, with description of the new species". Notes from the Leyden Museum 17: 145-162, plate 2-4.
  5. Sykes E. R. (1905). "On three species of Dyakia from Western Sumatra". 227-228.
  6. https://archive.org/stream/molluscatestacel00blaniala#page/300/
  7. Isobe, M; Uyakul, D; Goto, T; Counsilman, J. J. (1988). "Dyakia bioluminescence--1. Bioluminescence and fluorescence spectra of the land snail, D. Striata". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 2 (2): 73–9. doi:10.1002/bio.1170020204. PMID 3213594..


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