Ariophantidae

Ariophantidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

Ariophantidae
Two live individuals of Macrochlamys indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Ariophantidae
Godwin-Austen, 1888[1]
Genera

See text

Distribution

The distribution of the family Ariophantidae includes India and south-eastern Asia.[3]

Anatomy

Snails within this family make and use love darts made of chitin.[4]

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 25 and also lies between 31 and 35, but other values are also possible (according to the values in this table).[5]

Taxonomy

Subfamilies

The family Ariophantidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[2]

  • Ariophantinae Godwin-Austen, 1888 - synonyms: Naninidae Pfeffer, 1878 (inv.); Hemiplectinae Gude & B. B. Woodward, 1921[6]
  • Macrochlamydinae Godwin-Austen, 1888[1] - synonyms: Tanychlamydinae H. B. Baker, 1928;[7] Vitrinulini Schileyko, 2003[8]
  • Ostracolethinae Simroth, 1901[9] - synonyms: Myotestidae Collinge, 1902;[10] Parmarioninae Godwin-Austen, 1908;[11] Laocaiini Schileyko, 2002;[12] Microparmarionini Schileyko, 2003[13]

Genera

Genera in the family Ariophantidae include:

Ariophantinae

Macrochlamydinae

  • Macrochlamys Gray, 1847 - type genus of the subfamily Macrochlamydinae[2]
  • Microcystina Mörch, 1872
  • Rahula Godwin-Austen, 1907
  • Syama W. T. Blanford & Godwin-Austen, 1908[16]
  • Tanychlamys Benson, 1834[2]
  • Vitrinula Gray, 1857[2][17]
Microparmarion simrothi

Ostracolethinae

  • Laocaia Kuzminykh, 1999[2]
  • Microparmarion Simroth, 1893[2]
  • Myotesta Collinge, 1901[2]
  • Ostracolethe Simroth, 1901 - type genus of the subfamily Ostracolethinae[2]
  • Parmarion P. Fischer, 1855[2]

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family with other families in the limacoid clade:[3]

 limacoid clade 
 Staffordioidea 

Staffordiidae

 
 
 
 Dyakioidea 

Dyakiidae

 
 Gastrodontoidea 
 

Pristilomatidae

 
 
 

Chronidae

 
 
 

Euconulidae

 
 

Trochomorphidae

 
 
 
 

Gastrodontidae

 
 

Oxychilidae

 
 
 
 
 
 
 Parmacelloidea 
 

Trigonochlamydidae

 
 

Parmacellidae

 
 

Milacidae

 
 
 
 
 Zonitoidea 

Zonitidae

 
 Helicarionoidea 
 

Helicarionidae

 
 
 

Ariophantidae

 
 

Urocyclidae

 
 
 
 
 Limacoidea 
 

Vitrinidae

 
 
 

Boettgerillidae

 
 
 

Limacidae

 
 

Agriolimacidae

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

References
  1. Godwin-Austen H. H. (April 1888). Land and freshwater Mollusca of India. including South Arabia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Burmah, Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Ceylon, and other islands of the Indian Ocean, supplementary to Messrs. Theobald and Hanley's Conchologia Indica. Taylor & Francis, London, volume 1, part 6: 207-257, page 253.
  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.
  3. Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  4. "Bringing the Lab to the Field: A New Lowland Microparmarion Semi-slug (Gastropoda: Ariophantidae) from Borneo, described and DNA-barcoded in the Forest". Novataxa. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  5. Barker G. M. (2001). Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  6. Gude G. P. L. K. & Woodward B. B. (1921). "On Helicella, Férussac". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 14(5-6): 174-190. page 186.
  7. Baker H. B. (1928). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 80: 6.
  8. Schileyko (2003). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, part 10: page 1354
  9. Simroth H. (30 December 1901). Zoologischer Anzeiger 25(660): 64.
  10. Collinge (1902). The Journal of Malacology 9: 11.
  11. Godwin-Austen H. H. (1908). In: Blanford W. T. & Godwin-Austen H. H. (1908). The fauna of British India. Mollusca. Testacellidae and Zonitidae, page 180.
  12. Schileyko (2002). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, part 9: page 1219.
  13. Schileyko (2003). Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, part 10: page 1337.
  14. Godwin-Austen H. H. (1899). "Address of the president". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 241-262. page 251, 253.
  15. Raheem D. & Naggs F. (2006). "The Sri Lankan endemic semi-slug Ratnadvipia (Limacoidea: Ariophantidae) and a new species from southwestern Sri Lanka". Systematics and Biodiversity 4(1): 99-126. doi:10.1017/S1477200005001854.
  16. Bank, R. (2017). Syama W.T. Blanford & Godwin-Austen, 1908. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=995759 on 2017-11-05
  17. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Vitrinula chaunax. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 July 2011.

Further reading
  • Schileyko A. A. (2003). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. 10. Ariophantidae, Ostracolethaidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2. 1309-1466.
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