Dyakia (gastropod)

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Dyakioidea Phylum Mollusca		Class Gastropoda Family Dyakiidae Rank Genus

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

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