Diastole is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Microcystidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Diastole Gude, 1913. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=875271 on 2020-10-21
Species Species in the genus Diastole include: Diastole bryani H. B. Baker, 1938 Diastole conula (Pease, 1861) Diastole exposita (Mousson, 1873) Diastole fornicata (Ancey, 1889) Diastole futunae H. B. Baker, 1938 Diastole glaucina Baker, 1938 Diastole lamellaxis Baker, 1938 Diastole lauae H. B. Baker, 1938 Diastole matafaoi Baker, 1938, Mount Matafao different snail Diastole necrodes H. B. Baker, 1938 Diastole rurutui H. B. Baker, 1938 Diastole savaii Baker, 1938 Diastole schmeltziana (Mousson, 1865) Diastole simonei Thach & F. Huber, 2017 (taxon inquirendum) Diastole subcarinata Solem, 1959 Diastole tenuistriata Preece, 1995 Diastole tongana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
References
Baker, H. B. (1938). Zonitid snails from Pacific Islands. Part 1. Southern genera of Microcystinae. Bernice P. Bishop Museum bulletin. 158: 1–102, 20 pls. Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
External links
Bishop museum guide to Samoan land snails, Diastole species with images and other info Gude, G. K. (1913). Definitions of further new genera of Zonitidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10: 389-391 Iredale, T. (1913). The land Mollusca of the Kermadec islands. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10(6): 364-388, pl. 18