Phuphania Explained

Phuphania^[1] 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.^[2]

Species

The World Register of Marine Species lists:^[3]

• 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.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Tumpeesuwan C., Naggs F. & Panha S. (31 August 2007) "A new genus and new species of dyakiid snail (Pulmonata: Dyakiidae) from the Phu Phan range, northeastern Thailand". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 55(2): 363-369. PDF
2. Pholyotha . Arthit . Yano . Daichi . Mizuno . Gaku . Sutcharit . Chirasak . Tongkerd . Piyoros . Oba . Yuichi . Panha . Somsak . 2023-09-13 . A new discovery of the bioluminescent terrestrial snail genus Phuphania (Gastropoda: Dyakiidae) . Scientific Reports . en . 13 . 1 . 15137 . 10.1038/s41598-023-42364-y . 2045-2322 . 10499882 . 37704646.
3. MolluscaBase eds. . 2021 . Phuphania . 995356 . 3 April 2021.