Dyakia (gastropod)
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Dyakiia is a genus
of air-breathing land snail
s, terrestrial
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae
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Dyakia is the type genus
of the family Dyakiidae.
Synonyms:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
s, terrestrial
Terrestrial animal
Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...
pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Dyakiidae
Dyakiidae
Dyakiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Dyakioidea ....
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Dyakia is the type genus
Type genus
In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...
of the family Dyakiidae.
Species
The genus Dyakia include 22 species:- Dyakia clypeus (Mousson, 1857)
- Dyakia euconus Sykes, 1905
- Dyakia granaria (Bock, 1881)
- Dyakia kintana (De Morgan, 1885)
- Dyakia mackensiana (Souleyet, 1841)
- Dyakia hugonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) - the type species
- Dyakia perstriata Sykes, 1905
- Dyakia? retrorsa
- Dyakia rumphii (Von Den Busch, 1842)
- Dyakia salangana (Martens, 1883)
- Dyakia sannio (Pfeiffer, 1854)
Synonyms:
- Dyakia striata is a synonym for Quantula striataQuantula striataQuantula striata, also known as Dyakia striata, is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing, tropical land snail. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusk in the family Dyakiidae. This species appears to be unique among terrestrial gastropods in that it is bioluminescent: Its eggs glow in...
, the only known terrestrial gastropod to emit light