Strophocheilidae
| Strophocheilidae Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1] | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Strophocheilus oblongus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Acavoidea |
| Family: | Strophocheilidae Pilsbry, 1902 |
| Type genus | |
| Strophocheilus | |
Strophocheilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
Fossil record
The genus Eoborus is the family's oldest fossil record, dating from the Middle Paleocene of Brazil (Itaboraí Basin)[1][3] and Uruguay (Santa Lucía Basin).[4]
Genera
The family Strophocheilidae consists of two subfamilies and genera including:
subfamily Strophocheilinae Pilsbry, 1902
- Anthinus Albers, 1850
- Gonyostomus Beck, 1837
- Mirinaba Morretes, 1952
- Strophocheilus Spix, 1827 - type genus of the family Strophocheilidae[2]
subfamily Megalobuliminae Leme, 1973
- genus Megalobulimus K. Miller, 1878 - type genus of the subfamily Megalobuliminae[2]
- † genus Eoborus Klappenbach & Olazarri, 1970
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. 2012. New fossil pulmonate snails from the Paleocene of Itaboraí Basin, Brazil (Pulmonata: Cerionidae, Strophocheilidae, Orthalicidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(1): 43-50. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/043-050
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.
- ↑ Salvador, R.B. & Simone, L.R.L. Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53(2): 5-46. (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0031-10492013000200001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en)
- ↑ Martínez, S.; Veroslavsky, G.; Verde, M. 1997. Primer registro del Paleoceno en el Uruguay - paleosuelos calcareos fosiliferos en la Cuenca de Santa Lucía. Revista Brasileira de Geociências 27(3): 295-302.
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