Helicinidae

Helicinidae
A live individual of Helicina rhodostoma
A live individual of Alcadia conuloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Neritimorpha

clade Cycloneritimorpha

Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Helicinidae
Férussac, 1822
Diversity[1]
770-1400 species (estimation)

Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails which have an operculum. They are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea.

These snails are not at all closely related to the air-breathing land snails, despite a superficial similarity of the shells.

Distribution

These snails are found in tropical and subtropical areas but they have an odd distribution: they are restricted to the Caribbean islands and some Indo-Pacific and Pacific islands, as well as the edge of the Asian and Australian continents.

Taxonomy

Helicinidae belongs to superfamily Helicinoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

This family consists of six following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera

Genera within the family Helicinidae include:

Subfamily Helicininae

subfamily Ceratodiscinae

Subfamily † Dimorphoptychiinae

Subfamily Hendersoniinae

Subfamily Stoastomatinae

Subfamily Vianinae

Subfamily ?

References

  1. Richling I. (2014). "Poorly explored jewels of the tropics: Estimating diversity in non-pulmonate land snails of the family Helicinidae (Gastropoda: Neritopsina)". American Malacological Bulletin 32(2): 246-258. doi:10.4003/006.032.0216.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. Wenz W. (1938). "Teil 1: Allgememeiner Teil und Prosobranchia". In: Schindewolf O. H. (ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6, Gastropoda, Borntraeger, Berlin, 6(1): 1-240. pages 53-54.
  4. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B (1998): 353, 347.
  5. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B (1998): 353, 347.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine.. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  7. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Sturanyella carolinarum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 June 2011.

Further reading

species specific reading:

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