Valloniidae
Appearance
Valloniidae | |
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A live individual of Vallonia pulchella | |
Scientific classification | |
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(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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Family: | Valloniidae Morse, 1864
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Synonyms[1] | |
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 superfamily Pupilloidea.
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[2]
Taxonomy
The family Valloniidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[1]
Genera
Genera within the family Valloniidae include:
- Acanthinula Beck, 1847[1]
- Spermodea Westerlund, 1902
- Vallonia Risso, 1826 - the type genus of the family Valloniidae[1]
- Planogyra Morse, 1864
- Pupisoma Stoliczka 1873[1]
- Zoogenetes Morse, 1864
References
- ^ a b c d e 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
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