Amphiboloidea
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| A drawing of the shell and operculum of Amphibola crenata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea J. E. Gray, 1840 |
| Families | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 15 species | |
Amphiboloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails.
Distribution[edit]
Amphibolids are found in Indo-Pacific intertidal mangrove, saltmarsh and estuarine mudflat habitats.[1]
Taxonomy[edit]
2005 taxonomy[edit]
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it is a superfamily in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.[2]
This superfamily has contained only one family, the Amphibolidae.[2]
2007 taxonomy[edit]
Golding et al. (2007)[1] have established new families:
- Maningrididae Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007[1] - with the only species Maningrida arnhemensis[1]
- Phallomedusidae Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007[1]
2010 taxonomy[edit]
Basommatophora (Siphonarioidea and Amphiboloidea and Hygrophila) have been found polyphyletic and so Jörger et al. (2010)[3] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)". Zootaxa 1476: 1-50. abstract.
- ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ^ Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323.
Further reading[edit]
- Golding R. E., Byrne M., Ponder W. F. (2008) "Novel copulatory structures and reproductive functions in Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Pulmonata)". Invertebrate Biology 127(2): 168–180 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00120.x