Amphibolidae
| Amphibolidae | |
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| A shell of the mud-flat snail, Amphibola crenata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea |
| Family: | Amphibolidae J. E. Gray, 1840 |
| Genera | |
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See text. | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 4 genera, 12 species | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
The family is considered to be among the most primitive of the pulmonate gastropods, for although amphibolids breathe air, they also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming veliger stage.
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it was an only family within a superfamily Amphiboloidea in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.[2]
2010 taxonomy
Jörger et al. (2010)[3] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.
Genera
Genera and species within the family Amphibolidae include:
- Amphibola Schumacher, 1817 [1]
- Lactiforis Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007[1]
- Naranjia Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007[1] - with the only one species: Naranjia swatowensis (Yen, 1939)[1]
- Phallomedusa Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007
- Salinator Hedley, 1900[1]
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Ampullacera Quoy & Gaimard, 1832: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
- Thallicera Swainson, 1840: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)". Zootaxa 1476: 1-50. abstract.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ 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.
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