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Amnicolidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Truncatelloidea

Rank
  
Family

Class
  
Gastropoda

Phylum
  
Mollusca

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Similar
  
Bythinella, Rissooidea, Bithyniidae, Amnicola, Hydrobiidae

Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.

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This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.

Subfamilies

The family Amnicolidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

  • subfamily Amnicolinae Tryon, 1863 - synonym: Erhaiini Davis & Kuo, 1985
  • subfamily Baicaliinae P. Fisher, 1885
  • subfamily Emmericiinae Brusina, 1870

    • Genera

    Genera in the family Amnicolidae include:

  • Antrobia Hubricht, 1971
  • Antroselates Hubricht, 1963

    • subfamily Amnicolinae

  • Akiyoshia Kuroda & Habe, 1954
  • Amnicola Gould & Haldeman, 1840 - type genus
  • Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856
  • Marstoniopsis Van Regteren Altena, 1936 - synonym: Parabythinella Radoman, 1973
  • Erhaia Davis & Kuo in Davis, Kuo, Hoagland, Chen, Yang & Chen, 1985
  • Rachipteron F.G. Thompson, 1964

    • subfamily Baicaliinae

  • Baicalia Martens, 1876 - type genus of the subfamily Baicaliinae
  • Maackia Clessin, 1880

    • subfamily Emmericiinae Brusina, 1870

  • Emmericia Brusina, 1870 - type genus of the subfamily Emmericiinae

    • References

    Amnicolidae Wikipedia
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