Ellobiidae

Ellobiidae
A live but retracted individual of Laemodonta siamensis on a human hand. A partially torn epiphragm of dried mucus is visible in the aperture of the shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Pfeiffer, 1854
Family: Ellobiidae
Pfeiffer, 1854
Genera

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Ellobiidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata. This is the only family in the superfamily Ellobioidea, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

These are mostly snails that live in salt marshes and similar maritime habitats, and thus have a tolerance for saline conditions.

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Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 16 and 20 (according to the values in this table).[1]

Taxonomy

The family Ellobiidae Pfeiffer, 1854 (1822) consists of the following subfamilies:

Genera

Genera within the family Ellobiidae include:

subfamily Ellobiinae

subfamily Carychiinae

subfamily Melampinae

subfamily Pedipedinae

subfamily Pythiinae

† subfamily Zaptychiinae

subfamily ?

References

  1. ^ 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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