Helicarionidae
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| Helicarionidae | |
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| Five worn shells of Erepta setiliris at Réunion island | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: | Helicarionidae Bourguignat, 1877[1] |
Helicarionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.[2]
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[edit] Distribution
Distribution of Helicarionidae include eastern Palearctic, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia and Australian.[3]
[edit] 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).[4]
[edit] Taxonomy
The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):[2]
- subfamily Helicarioninae Bourguignat, 1877 - synonyms: Pseudotrochatellinae A. J. Wagner, 1905;[5] Ereptinae Godwin-Austen, 1908;[6] Xestinae Gude & B. B. Woodward, 1921;[7] Sesarinae Thiele, 1931;[8] Nitoridae Iredale, 1937;[9] Epiglyptidae Iredale, 1944;[10] Gudeoconchidae Iredale, 1944[10]
- subfamily Durgellinae Godwin-Austen, 1888[11]
[edit] Genera
Genera within the family Helicarionidae include:
subfamily Helicarioninae
- Epiglypta Pilsbry, 1893[2]
- Erepta Albers, 1850[2]
- Gudeoconcha Iredale, 1914[2]
- Helicarion Férussac, 1821 - type genus of the family Helicarionidae[2]
- Nitor Gude, 1911[2]
- Pseudotrochatella G. Nevill, 1881[2]
- Sesara Albers, 1860[2]
- Xesta Albers, 1850[2]
subfamily Durgellinae
- tribe Durgellini
subfamily ?
- Advena[citation needed]
- Atrichotoxon[citation needed]
- Buffetia[citation needed]
- Diastole[citation needed]
- Dolapex[citation needed]
- Elisolimax[citation needed]
- Harmogenanina[citation needed]
- Iredaleoconcha[citation needed]
- Kaliella[citation needed]
- Lutilodix[citation needed]
- Mathewsoconcha[citation needed]
- Mysticarion[citation needed]
- Nancibella[citation needed]
- Ovachlamys[citation needed]
- Panulena[citation needed]
- Philonesia[citation needed]
- Pittoconcha[citation needed]
- Quintalia[citation needed]
- Thapsia[citation needed]
- Trichotoxon[citation needed]
- Tubuaia[citation needed]
- Zingis[citation needed]
[edit] Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[3]
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[edit] References
- ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1877). "Description de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suive d'une classification des families et des genres de Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen". Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse 3(1): 49-101. page 64.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.
- ^ a b Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
- ^ Barker G. M. (2001). Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. In: Barker G. M. (ed.). The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
- ^ Wagner A. J. (1905). Denkschriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 77: 365.
- ^ Godwin-Austen H. H. (1908). "On the Animals of Genera and Species of Mascarene Land-Mollusca belonging to the family Zonitidae, collected by Monsieur E. Dupont". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)2: 422-436. 432. Plate 9-11.
- ^ Gude G. P. L. K. & Woodward B. B. (1921). "On Helicella, Férussac". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 14(5-6): 174-190. page 185.
- ^ Thiele (1931). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde 1(2): 620.
- ^ Iredale T. (1937). The Australian Zoologist 9(1): 2.
- ^ a b Iredale T. (1944). The Australian Zoologist 10(3): page 326 and page 328.
- ^ Godwin-Austen H. H. (1888). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India 1(6): 253.
- ^ Godwin-Austen H. H. (1900). In: Sykes Mollusca. In: Sharp (ed.) Fauna Hawaiiensis 2(4): 283.
- ^ Blanford W. T. & Godwin-Austen H. H. (1908). The fauna of British India. Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae, page 283.
- ^ Schileyko (2003). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, part 10: 1319.
- ^ Collinge (1902). The Journal of Malacology 9(3): 71, 73.
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