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Helicarionidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Helicarionidae

Higher classification
  
Gastropods

Superfamily
  
Helicarionoidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Family

Helicarionidae wwwelrincondelmalacologocomWeb20fotos20contin

Lower classifications
  
Nitor, Euconulus fulvus, Euconulus alderi, Euconulus praticola, Erepta stylodon

Vang vieng snail helicarionidae


Helicarionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.

Contents

Distribution

The distribution of Helicarionidae includes the eastern Palearctic, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Hawaii, and Australia.

Anatomy

Species of snails within this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 30 (according to the values in this table).

Taxonomy

The following two subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

  • subfamily Helicarioninae Bourguignat, 1877 - synonyms: Pseudotrochatellinae A. J. Wagner, 1905; Ereptinae Godwin-Austen, 1908; Xestinae Gude & B. B. Woodward, 1921; Sesarinae Thiele, 1931; Nitoridae Iredale, 1937; Epiglyptidae Iredale, 1944; Gudeoconchidae Iredale, 1944
  • subfamily Durgellinae Godwin-Austen, 1888
  • tribe Durgellini Godwin-Austen, 1888 - synonyms: Sitalinae Godwin-Austen, 1900; Sophininae W. Blanford & Godwin-Austen, 1908; Satiellini Schileyko, 2003
  • tribe Girasiini Collinge, 1902

    • Genera

    Genera within the family Helicarionidae include:

    subfamily Helicarioninae

  • Epiglypta Pilsbry, 1893
  • Erepta Albers, 1850
  • Gudeoconcha Iredale, 1914
  • Helicarion Férussac, 1821 - type genus of the family Helicarionidae
  • Nitor Gude, 1911
  • Pseudotrochatella G. Nevill, 1881
  • Sesara Albers, 1860
  • Wilhelminaia Preston, 1913
  • Xesta Albers, 1850

    • subfamily Durgellinae

  • tribe Durgellini
  • Durgella Blanford, 1863 - type genus of the subfamily Durgellinae
  • Satiella Godwin-Austen, 1908
  • Sitala H. Adams, 1865
  • Sophina Benson, 1859
  • tribe Girasiini
  • Girasia Gray, 1855 - type genus of the tribe Girasiini

    • subfamily ?

  • Advena
  • Atrichotoxon
  • Buffetia
  • Diastole
  • Dolapex
  • Elisolimax
  • Harmogenanina
  • Iredaleoconcha
  • Kaliella
  • Lutilodix
  • Mathewsoconcha
  • Mysticarion
  • Nancibella
  • Ovachlamys
  • Panulena
  • Philonesia
  • Pittoconcha
  • Quintalia
  • Ryssota
  • Thapsia
  • Trichotoxon
  • Zingis

    • Cladogram

    The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:

    References

    Helicarionidae Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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