Pomatiidae

Pomatiidae
An apertural view of a shell and operculum of Tudorella sulcata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Littorinoidea
Family: Pomatiidae
Newton, 1891 (1828)
Synonyms
  • Pomatiasidae

The family Pomatiidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that can be found over the warmer parts of the Old World. In the older literature, this family is designated as Pomatiasidae.

This family is a lineage closely related to the Littorinidae (periwinkles) common in coastal habitat. They have adapted to terrestrial life and are thus sometimes called "land winkles".[1]

They are defined by a chalky operculum at the rear end of the body, the shape of their thick shell and their mouth and a characteristic spiral sculpture. The sexes are separate and can sometimes be recognised because the female shell is slightly larger than the male shell.

Taxonomy

According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), the family Pomatiidae consists of two subfamilies:[2]

Genera

Genera within the family Pomatiidae include:

subfamily Pomatiinae

subfamily Annulariinae

(to be sorted to tribes)

tribe Annulariini

tribe Adamsiellini

tribe Choanopomatini

tribe Cistulopsini

tribe Rhytidopomatini

to be sorted to subfamilies:

References

  1. Journal of Molluscan Studies, GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE LAND WINKLE POMATIAS ELEGANS (MÜLLER) (CAENOGASTROPODA: POMATIASIDAE) Volume 67, Issue 2, pp 145–152 (http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/2/145.abstract) Accessed 2014-9-2
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  9. KENNETH C. EMBERTON Cryptic, genetically extremely divergent, polytypic, convergent, and polymorphic taxa in Madagascan Tropidophora (Gastropoda: Pomatiasidae) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society - Volume 55, Issue 3, pages 183–208, July 1995
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  11. 1 2 3 4 Watters G. T. (2012). "Hispaniolan Annulariidae (Gastropoda), primarily from the Barahona Peninsula: new taxa and notes". The Nautilus 126: 1-14.
  12. 1 2 Dall W. H. (1905). "An arrangement of the American Cyclostomatidae, with a revision of the nomenclature". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 6: 208-210.
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