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

Dyakia
D. janus in Malaysia
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Dyakia

Diversity[2]
22 species

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

Species edit

The genus Dyakia include 22[2] species:

Synonyms:

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

References edit

  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. ^ a b 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. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 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. ^ a b c Sykes E. R. (1905). "On three species of Dyakia from Western Sumatra". 227-228.
  6. ^ "Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae". 1908.
  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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