Phuphania
Genus of snails
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::summary Genus of snails ::
| taxon = Phuphania | authority = C. Tumpeesuwan, Naggs & Panha, 2007 |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = |Phuphania cartinata| C. Kongim, Bangon & Panha, Somsak, 2013 |Phuphania costata|C. Tumpeesuwan & S. Tumpeesuwan, 2014 |Phuphania crossei|(L. Pfeiffer, 1862) |Phuphania globosa|C. Tumpeesuwan, Naggs & Panha, 2007
Phuphania is a genus air-breathing, tropical land snails. It is a terrestrial, pulmonate, gastropod mollusc in the family Dyakiidae. All members of this genus display bioluminescence.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists:
- Phuphania cartinata C. Kongim, Bangon & Panha, Somsak, 2013
- Phuphania costata C. Tumpeesuwan & S. Tumpeesuwan, 2014
- Phuphania crossei (L. Pfeiffer, 1862)
- Phuphania globosa C. Tumpeesuwan, Naggs & Panha, 2007 - type species.
References
References
- Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the [[Phu Phan Mountains. Phu Phan range]], northeastern Thailand". ''[[Raffles Bulletin of Zoology]]'' [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/journal552.php '''55'''(2)]: 363-369. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080522111216/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/55/55rbz363-369.pdf PDF]
- Pholyotha, Arthit. (2023-09-13). "A new discovery of the bioluminescent terrestrial snail genus Phuphania (Gastropoda: Dyakiidae)". Scientific Reports.
- (2021). "Phuphania". MolluscaBase eds..
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