Cycloneritimorpha

Cycloneritimorpha (nerites and false-limpets[2]) is a clade of land snails, freshwater snails, and sea snails. These are gastropod molluscs within the larger clade Neritimorpha. 14 of the families in the clade are extant, and eight of the families are extinct.

Cycloneritimorpha
Family Neritidae: Nerita plicata on intertidal rock surfaces at Turtle Island, Fiji
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Neritimorpha
Clade: Cycloneritimorpha
Frýda, 1998[1]
Families

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According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), as well as the Cycloneritimorpha, the clade Neritimorpha also contains the (entirely fossil) clade Cyrtoneritimorpha, plus a number of other fossil families that are currently unassigned.

The earliest evolutionary forms of Cycloneritimorpha show double visceral organs, double gills, and normally a double-chambered heart.[3]

Taxonomy

The taxonomy of Cycloneritimorpha is based on work by Kano et al. (2002),[4] that recognizes 4 clades. These clades are established on genetic analysis (28S rRNA) of recent species only. These clades proposed by Kano are ranked as superfamilies in taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

The spelling of Cycloneritimorpha has been amended to the order Cycloneritida in the new taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet and Rocroi in 2017 [5]

Clade Cycloneritimorpha contains:

References
  2. "Neritimorpha - Cycloneritimorpha". Molluscsoftasmania.net. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
  3. "Gastropoda - Snails, Slugs, Limpets, Nudibranchs". Discover Life. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
  4. Kano Y., Chiba S. & Kase T. 2002. Major adaptive radiation in neritopsine gastropods estimated from 28S rRNA sequences and fossil records. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B, 269: 2457-2465.
  5. Philippe Bouchet & Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families; Malacologia, 2017, 61(1–2): 1–526
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