Dyakia (gastropod)

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

Dyakia
Dyakia janus in Malaysia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Dyakiidae
Genus:	Dyakia Godwin-Austen, 1891[1]
Diversity[2]
22 species

Dyakia is the type genus of the family Dyakiidae.^[3]

Species

The genus Dyakia include 22^[2] species:

• Dyakia chlorosoma Vermeulen, Liew & Schilthuizen, 2015
• Dyakia clypeus (Mousson, 1857)
• Dyakia densestriata Schepman, 1896^[4]
• Dyakia euconus Sykes, 1905^[5]
• Dyakia granaria (Bock, 1881)^[5]
• Dyakia janus (Beck, 1837)
• Dyakia kintana (De Morgan, 1885)
• Dyakia mackensiana (Souleyet, 1841)
• Dyakia moluensis Godwin-Austen, 1891
• Dyakia hugonis (L. Pfeiffer, 1863) - the type species
• Dyakia perstriata Sykes, 1905^[5]
• Dyakia? retrorsa^[6]
• Dyakia rumphii (Von Den Busch, 1842)
• Dyakia salangana (Martens, 1883)
• Dyakia sannio (Pfeiffer, 1854)

Synonyms:

• Dyakia striata is a synonym for Quantula striata, the only known terrestrial gastropod to emit light^[7]