Achatinellidae

Achatinellidae
A live individual of Achatinella bulimoides
An unidentified species of Auriculella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Orthurethra

Superfamily: Achatinelloidea
Gulick, 1873
Family: Achatinellidae
Gulick, 1873[1]

Achatinellidae is a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinelloidea.

Taxonomy

This is the only family in the superfamily Achatinelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies in the family Achatinellidae include:

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 16 and 25 (according to the values in the table).[2]

Distribution

This family of snails occurs widely in the Pacific islands. They are at their most diverse in the Hawaiian group.[3][4]

Genera

Genera in the family Achatinellidae include:

Achatinellinae

Auriculellinae

Elasmatininae

Pacificellinae

Tekoulininae

Tornatellidinae

Tornatellininae

unsorted

References

  1. Gulick J. T. (1873). "On the classification of the Achatinellidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1873(1): 89-91.
  2. Barker G. M. 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.
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  4. Cooke, C. M. and Yoshio Kondo. 1960. Revision of Tornatellinidae and Achatinellidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 221. 303 pp.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Holland, Brenden S; Hadfield, Michael G (2004). "Origin and diversification of the endemic Hawaiian tree snails (Achatinellidae: Achatinellinae) based on molecular evidence". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32 (2): 588–600. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.01.003. PMID 15223040.
  6. Cowie R. H. (1996). "Gulickia alexandri". 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.

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