Tonkinia Explained

Tonkinia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.^[1]

Distribution

The distribution of the genus Tonkinia includes:

• north Vietnam^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Tonkinia include:

• Tonkinia mirabilis Mabille, 1887
• Tonkinia struposa (Mabille, 1887)

References

• Mabille, J. (1887). Molluscorum Tonkinorum diagnoses. Meulan. 18 pp.
• Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.

External links

• Páll-Gergely, B., Hunyadi, A., Grego, J., Sajan, S., Tripathy, B. & Chen, Z.-Y. [Zheyu]. (2020). A review of the Diapheridae (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Streptaxoidea), with special emphasis on India and Myanmar. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 68: 682–718

Notes and References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Tonkinia Mabille, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996810 on 2022-10-03
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. .