Valloniidae
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| Valloniidae | |
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| Vallonia pulchella | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Valloniidae Morse, 1864 |
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Circinariidae Pilsbry, 1896 |
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Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.
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[edit] Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[2]
[edit] Taxonomy
The family Valloniidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[1]
[edit] Genera
Genera within the family Valloniidae include:
- Acanthinula Beck, 1847[1]
- Spermodea Westerlund, 1902
- Vallonia Risso, 1826 - type genus of the family Valloniidae[1]
- Planogyra Morse, 1864
- Pupisoma Stoliczka 1873[1]
- Zoogenetes Morse, 1864
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
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