Trochomorphidae
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
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| Family: | Trochomorphidae Möllendorff, 1890[1]
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Geotrochidae Schileyko, 2002 | |
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution
The distribution of Trochomorphidae includes eastern-Palearctic, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesia.[2]
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[3]
Genera
Genera within the family Trochomorphidae include:
- Trochomorpha Albers, 1850 - type genus of the family Trochomorphidae
Some authors place the following two genera in this family, instead of in the family Zonitidae.
- Kondoa Baker, 1941[citation needed]
- Hogolua Baker, 1941[citation needed]
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Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[2]
References
- ^ Möllendorff (1890). Bericht der Senckengergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a. M. (1889-1890): 210.
- ^ a b Hausdorf B. (March 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.: 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.
Further reading
- Baker (1941). Bulletin of the Bishop Museum 116: 273.
- Gude G. K. (1914). Mollusca.−II. (Trochomorphidae--Janellidae)''.The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. London, xii + 520 pp., 164 figs.
- Vagvolvyi J. (1976). "Body size, aerial dispersal and origin of the Pacific land snail fauna". Syst. Zool 24: 465-488.