Acochlidiidae

Acochlidiidae
Acochlidium fijiiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Acochlidiacea
clade Hedylopsacea[1]
Family: Acochlidiidae
Küthe, 1935[2]
Diversity
altogether 3 genera and 6 species;[1]

5 freshwater species (cf. [3]) one in brackish waters.
Synonyms[1]

Palliohedylidae Rankin, 1979

Acochlidiidae are a taxonomic family of shell-less freshwater gastropods (one of them Palliohedyle weberi lives in brackish waters),[1] aquatic gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.

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2005 taxonomy

Acochlidiidae has been classified as the only family within the superfamily Acochlidioidea Küthe, 1935 in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[4] Palliohedylidae has been classified as the only family within the superfamily Palliohedyloidea.[4]

2010 taxonomy

Schrödl & Neusser (2010)[1] have redefined the taxonomy of Acochlidiacea in 2010 and family Acochlidiidae is in the clade Hedylopsacea.[1]

Genera

According to the Schrödl & Neusser (2010)[1] there are three genera in the family Acochlidiidae:[1]

Acochlidium Strubel, 1892[5][1]

Palliohedyle Rankin, 1979[1]

Strubellia Odhner, 1937[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
  2. ^ (German) Küthe P. (7 June 1935) "Organisation und systematische Stellung der Acochlidium paradoxum Strubell". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abt. für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Thiere, 66(6): 514-540, 8 plates. Acochlidiidae is on the page 539.
  3. ^ 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.
  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. ^ Strubell (1892). Verh. naturh. Ver. Rheinlande 49: 62.
  6. ^ a b c Rudman W. B. (17 June 2006). "Comment on Are there freshwater sea slugs? by Dave". Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/16865 accessed 23 May 2010.
  7. ^ Haynes A. & Kenchington W. (1991). "Acochlidium fijiiensis sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Acochlidiacea) from Fiji". The Veliger 34(2): 166-171.
  8. ^ Rudman W. B. (23 March 2010). "Acochlidium fijiiensis Haynes & Kenchington, 1991". Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/acocfiji accessed 23 may 2010.
  9. ^ Wawra E. (1979). "Acochlidium sutteri nov. spec. (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Acochlidiacea) von Sumba, Indonesien". Ann. Naturhistor. Mus. Wien 82: 595-604. PDF