Oophana Explained

Oophana is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Streptaxinae of the family Streptaxidae.^[1]

Distribution

Distribution of the genus Oophana include:

• South-East Asia^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Oophana include:

• Oophana acuticarina van Benthem Jutting, 1961
• Oophana atopospira van Benthem Jutting, 1954
• Oophana balingensis (Tomlin, 1948)
• Oophana bulbulus (Morelet, 1862) - type species
• Oophana diaphanopepla van Benthem Jutting^[3]
• Oophana diplodon (Möllendorff, 1900)
• Oophana eutropha van Benthem Jutting, 1954
• Oophana elisa Gould, 1856
• Oophana huberi Thach, 2018
• Oophana michaui (Crosse & P. Fischer, 1863)
• Oophana pachyglottis (Möllendorff, 1900)
• Oophana siamensis (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
• Oophana striatula (Collinge, 1902)
• Oophana thamnophila van Benthem Jutting, 1954
• Oophana thuthaoae Thach, 2017^[4]
• Oophana tiomanensis Clements, 2006^[5]

References

• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017.
• Van Bentham Jutting W. S. S. (1954). "The Malayan Streptaxidae of the genera Discartemon and Oophana". Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 25: 71–106. PDF.

External links

• Ancey, C. F. (1884). Sur les divisions proposées dans le genre Streptaxis. Le Naturaliste. 6(50): 399

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oophana Ancey, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=877720 on 9 November 2021
2. Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of Diaphera Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 1-16. .
3. Berry A. J. (1963). "The anatomy of two Malayan limestone hill Streptaxidae, Sinoennea kanchingensis Tomlin and Oophana diaphanopepla van Benthem Jutting, with special reference to the genital system". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 35: 139-150.
4. Thach N. N. (2017). New shells of Southeast Asia. Sea shells & Land snails. 48HrBooks Company. 128 pp., page 32, figures 379-381.
5. Clements R. (2006). "Oophana tiomanensis, a new streptaxid (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae) from Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54(1): 125-127. PDF .