Ferussaciidae
Ferussaciidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea.[3]
This family has no subfamilies.[3] Name Ferussaciidae is younger but has been declared as a nomen protectum and Cecilioididae has been declared as a nomen oblitum, because it has not been used for more than last 100 years.[3]
Distribution
Distribution of Ferussaciidae include from Africa to Europe and Near East, tropical Americas, Hawaii and tropical Asia.[1]
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[4]
Genera
Genera within the family Ferussaciidae include: (The following unreferenced unchecked genera are probably from Schileyko (1999))
- Amphorella Lowe, 1852
- Calaxis Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887[5]
- Cecilioides Férussac, 1814[3][5]
- Coilostele Benson, 1864[5]
- Conollya Odhner, 1932[5]
- Cylichnidia R. T. Lowe, 1852
- Digoniaxis Jousseaume, 1889
- Ferussacia Risso, 1826 - type genus of the family Ferussaciidae[3][5]
- Geostilbia Crosse, 1867
- Hohenwartiana Bourguignat, 1864[5]
- Karolus Folin, 1870
- Pseudocalaxis Pallary, 1912
- Sculptiferussacia Germain, 1911[5]
References
- ^ a b "Family summary for Ferussaciidae". AnimalBase, last modified 16 August 2007, accessed 7 April 2011.
- ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1883). Historie malacologique de l'Abyssinie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, ser. 6, 15 (Art. 2): 120.
- ^ a b c d e f 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Genera in family Ferussaciidae" (n = 8). AnimalBase, accessed 7 April 2011.
Further reading
- Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocyclidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae, Subulinidae, Glessulidae, Micractaeonidae, Ferrussaciidae". In: Ruthenica., Supplement, 2(4): 435-564, Moscow, ISSN 0136-0027.