Dioryx Explained

Dioryx is a genus of air-breathing land snails in the family Alycaeidae.^[1] It was formerly considered a subgenus of Alycaeus.

Species

Species within the genus Dioryx include:

• Dioryx amphora (Benson, 1856)
• Dioryx bacca (L. Pfeiffer, 1863)
• Dioryx cariniger Möllendorff, 1897
• Dioryx compactus (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
• Dioryx dautzenbergi Páll-Gergely, 2017
• Dioryx distortus (Haines, 1855)
• Dioryx dongiensis Varga, 1972
• Dioryx feddenianus (Theobald, 1870)
• Dioryx globulosus (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Dioryx globulus (Möllendorff, 1885)
• Dioryx kobeltianus (Möllendorff, 1874)
• Dioryx menglunensis D.-N. Chen & G.-Q. Zhang, 1998
• Dioryx messageri (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
• Dioryx monadicus (Heude, 1890)
• Dioryx pilula (Gould, 1859)
• Dioryx pocsi Varga, 1972
• Dioryx requiescens (J. Mabille, 1887)
• Dioryx rosea (Bavay & Dautzenberg, 1900)
• Dioryx setchuanensis (Heude, 1885)
• Dioryx swinhoei (H. Adams, 1866)
• Dioryx urceolus (Godwin-Austen, 1914)
• Dioryx urnula (Benson, 1853)
• Dioryx varius (Godwin-Austen, 1914)

References

• Bavay, A. & Dautzenberg, P., 1900. Description de coquilles nouvelles de l'Indo-Chine (2ème partie). Journal de Conchyliologie 48: 435-460
• Bavay, A. & Dautzenberg, P., 1900. Diagnose de nouveaux mollusques d'Indo-Chine. Journal de Conchyliologie 48: 108-122
• Fischer-Piette, E., 1950. Liste des types décrits dans le Journal de Conchyliologie et conservés dans la collection de ce journal (avec planches)(suite). Journal de Conchyliologie 90: 149-180
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
• Inkhavilay K., Sutcharit C., Bantaowong U., Chanabun R., Siriwut W., Srisonchai R., Srisonchai A., Jirapatrasilp P. & Panha S., 2019. Annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs from Laos (Mollusca, Gastropoda). ZooKeys 834: 1-166

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Dioryx Benson, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996199 on 2020-10-21