Amnicolidae

Amnicolidae
Drawing of the shell of Amnicola dalli with an operculum.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Amnicolidae
Tryon, 1863
Genera

See text.
Diversity
about 200 freshwater species[1]

Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.

This family is in the superfamily Rissooidea and in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Previously was considered as a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.

Contents

Subfamilies

The family Amnicolidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[2]

Genera

Genera in the family Amnicolidae include:

subfamily Amnicolinae

subfamily Baicaliinae

subfamily Emmericiinae Brusina, 1870

References

  1. ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. http://hdl.handle.net/10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
  2. ^ a b 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. 
  3. ^ a b Davis G. M., Kuo Y.-H. Hoagland K. E., Chen P.-L., Yang H.-M. & Chen D.-J. (1985). "Erhaia, a new genus and new species of Pomatiopsidae from China (Gastropoda: Rissoacea)". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 137: 48-78. page 66. JSTOR 4064860.
  4. ^ Davis G. M. & Rao S. (1997). "Discovery of Erhaia (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) in northern India with description of a new genus of Erhaiini from China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48: 273-299. JSTOR.
  5. ^ Fazalova V., Nevado B., Peretolchina T., Petunina J. & Sherbakov D. (2010). "When environmental changes do not cause geographic separation of fauna: differential responses of Baikalian invertebrates". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 320. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-320.