Pleurodontidae

Pleurodontidae
1868 painting of Pleurodonte bainbridgii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Pleurodontidae
Ihering, 1912
Genera

See text

Synonyms
  • Lucerninae Swainson, 1840
  • Lampadiidae Winckworth, 1945
  • Solaropsidae H. Nordsieck, 1986
  • Caracolinae Cuezzo, 2003

Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

This family is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[1] This family has no subfamilies.[1]

The family Pleurodontidae includes some American taxa that used to be included within the Australasian family Camaenidae, a taxon whose monophyly was in doubt.

Anatomy

Pleurodontids are defined by a missing diverticulum. However the diverticulum is partially present in the genus Solaropsis. The stimulatory organ is equally missing. However, Solaropsis has in part a penial stimulator and a divided penis retractor muscle.

Genera

Genera within this family include:

  • Caracolus Montfort, 1810 - synonyms: Caracolla Montfort, 1810; Discodoma Swainson, 1840; Serpentulus Adams, 1855; Wurtzorbis[2]
  • Coloniconcha Pilsbry, 1933 - with the only species Coloniconcha prima Pilsbry, 1933[3]
  • Dentellaria Schumacher, 1817 - either separate genus (with a synonym: Lucerna)[2] or as a synonym of Pleurodonte[4]
  • Eurycratera Beck, 1837[5]
    • Eurycratera jamaicensis (Gmelin, 1791)[5]
  • Labyrinthus Beck 1837 - synonym: Lampadion Röding, 1798[2]
  • Pleurodonte Fischer de Waldheim, 1807
  • Psadara Miller, 1878 - synonym or subgenus of Solaropsis
  • Solaropsis Beck, 1837
  • Thelidomus Swainson, 1840 (or in Camaenidae)
  • Zachrysia Pilsbry, 1926 (or in Camaenidae)

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  2. 1 2 3 Schileyko A. A. (2006). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 13. Helicidae, Pleurodontidae, Polygyridae, Ammonitellidae, Oreohelicidae, Thysanophoridae". Ruthenica Suppl. 2: 1765-1906.
  3. ↑ Breure A. S. H. (2010). "The rediscovery of a semi-slug: Coloniconcha prima Pilsbry, 1933 (Gastropoda, Pleurodontidae) from Hispaniola". Basteria 74(4-6): 78-86.
  4. ↑ Mónica Lucía Vera Ardila (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana. 9 (1): 39–62.
  5. 1 2 Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. doi:10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.
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