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Sinoennea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Family
  
Diapheridae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Superfamily
  
Streptaxoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Streptaxidae, Diaphera, Perrottetia, Georissa, Alycaeus

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

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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 and Taiwan), Malaysian Peninsula in Malaysia and Thailand, Sumatra, Japan and South Korea.

Description

The shell of Sinoennea has 6-7 whorls. The whorls are swelling.

Taxonomy

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

Species

Species in the genus Sinoennea include:

  • Sinoennea duplicaria
  • Sinoennea iwakawa yakushimae
  • Sinoennea kanchingensis Tomlin, 1948
  • Sinoennea longtangshanensis Zhang et al, 2015
  • Sinoennea ridley (Piele, 1926)
  • References

    Sinoennea Wikipedia