Dyakia (gastropod) explained

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^[1] species:

• Dyakia chlorosoma Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
• Dyakia clypeus (Mousson, 1857)
• Dyakia densestriata Schepman, 1896^[2]
• Dyakia euconus Sykes, 1905
• Dyakia granaria (Bock, 1881)
• Dyakia janus (Beck, 1837)
• Dyakia kintana (De Morgan, 1885)
• Dyakia mackensiana (Souleyet, 1841)
• Dyakia moluensis Godwin-Austen, 1891
• Dyakia hugonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) - the type species
• Dyakia perstriata Sykes, 1905^[3]
• Dyakia? retrorsa^[4]
• 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^[5]

External links

• http://malacos.chez.com/htm/J78G7.HTM

Notes and References

1. 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) : 363-369. PDF
2. 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.
3. [Ernest Ruthven Sykes|Sykes E. R.]
4. Web site: Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae. 1908.
5. 3213594. 1988. Isobe. M. Dyakia bioluminescence--1. Bioluminescence and fluorescence spectra of the land snail, D. Striata. Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 2. 2. 73–9. Uyakul. D. Goto. T. Counsilman. J. J.. 10.1002/bio.1170020204. .