Strophocheilidae

Strophocheilidae
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent[1]
Apertural view of a shell of Strophocheilus oblongus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
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
  • Austroborus Parodiz, 1949
  • Chiliborus Pilsbry, 1926
  • Gonyostomus Beck, 1837
  • Mirinaba Morretes, 1952
  • Speironepion Bequaert, 1948
  • 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 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.
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ 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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