Sinoennea

Sinoennea
Shell of Sinoennea variabilis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Diapheridae
Genus: Sinoennea
Kobelt, 1904
Type species
Pupa strophiodes
Gredler, 1881
Other species
see text
Synonyms
  • Ennea (Indoennea) Kobelt, 1904 (junior synonym)
  • Ennea (Sinoennea) Kobelt, 1904 (original rank)
  • Gulella (Sinoennea) Kobelt, 1904
  • Indoennea Kobelt, 1904 (junior synonym)
  • Sinoennea (Sinoennea) Kobelt, 1904· accepted, alternate representation

Sinoennea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Diapheridae.

Etymology

The name of the genus Sinoennea originates from Sino- (Chinese) + Ennea.

Distribution

The distribution of Sinoennea includes South of India, Indochina, China (South of Yangtze River and Taiwan), Malaysian Peninsula in Malaysia and Thailand, Sumatra, Japan and South Korea.

Description

The shell of Sinoennea has 6-7 whorls. The whorls are swelling.

Taxonomy

This genus used to belong to the families Streptaxidae and Diapheridae, but the newest assigned it to the Family Enneinae.

Species

Species in the genus Sinoennea include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Kobelt W. (1904). Nachr. Bl. dtsch. malakozool. Ges. 36: 27; (1904). Syst. Conch. Cab., Lief. 492: 142.
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  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Zhang, Weihong; Cheng, Zhangfeng; Chen, Deniu (2015). "A New Species of the Genus Sinoennea Kobelt from Zhejiang Province, China (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora, Streptaxidae)". Sichuan Journal of Zoology (in Simplified Chinese). 34 (1): 59–61. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-7083.2015.01.009.
  5. 1 2 3 "中華草包蝸牛屬 (Sinoennea)". 臺灣陸生蝸牛資訊網 (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2017-03-14.
  6. ↑ 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 (4): 139–150. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064911.