Glacidorbidae

Glacidorbidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Glacidorboidea
Ponder, 1986[1]
Family: Glacidorbidae
Ponder, 1986[1]
Diversity
20 freshwater species[2]

The Glacidorbidae is a taxonomic family of freshwater snails, gastropod mollusks in the clade Panpulmonata.[3]

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Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

Glacidorbidae is the only family in the superfamily Glacidorboidea.[4] Glacidorboidea has been classified within the informal group Lower Heterobranchia in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[4]

2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010)[3] redefined the major groups within the Heterobranchia; they moved Glacidorboidea to Panpulmonata.[3]

Genera

Genera within the family Glacidorbidae include:[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Ponder W. F. (1986). "Glacidorbidae (Glacidorbacea: Basommatophora), a new family and superfamily of operculate freshwater gastropods". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 87(1): 53-83. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1986.tb01330.x.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b c Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323.
  4. ^ 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. 
  5. ^ Ponder, W. F., Avern, G. J. (2000). The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 52(3): 307–353. Full text, abstract

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