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Dyakia (gastropod)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Dyakioidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Dyakiidae

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Dyakiidae, Ariophantidae, Hemiplecta, Georissa, Diaphera

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

Dyakia is the type genus of the family Dyakiidae.

Species

The genus Dyakia include 22 species:

  • Dyakia clypeus (Mousson, 1857)
  • Dyakia densestriata Schepman, 1896
  • Dyakia euconus Sykes, 1905
  • Dyakia granaria (Bock, 1881)
  • Dyakia kintana (De Morgan, 1885)
  • Dyakia mackensiana (Souleyet, 1841)
  • Dyakia hugonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) - the type species
  • Dyakia perstriata Sykes, 1905
  • Dyakia? retrorsa
  • 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

    • References

    Dyakia (gastropod) Wikipedia
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