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:

• Achatinellinae Gulick, 1873 - synonym: Helicterinae Pease, 1870 (inv.)
• Auriculellinae Odhner, 1921
• Elasmatininae Iredale, 1937
  • tribe Elasmatinini Iredale, 1937 - synonyms: Strobilidae Zilch, 1959 (n.a.); Pitysinae Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Antonellini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Tubuaiini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
• Pacificellinae Steenberg, 1925
  • tribe Pacificellini Steenberg, 1925 - synonym: Tornatellinoptini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Lamellideini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
• Tekoulininae Solem, 1972
• Tornatellidinae Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Tornatellidini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
  • tribe Tornatellariini Cooke & Kondo, 1961
• Tornatellininae Sykes, 1900
  • tribe Tornatellinini Sykes, 1900
  • tribe Elasmiatini Kuroda & Habe, 1949

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

• Achatinella Swainson, 1828^[5] - type genus of the subfamily Achatinellinae
• Partulina Pfeiffer, 1854^[5]
• Perdicella Pease, 1870^[5]
• Newcombia Pfeiffer, 1854^[5]

Auriculellinae

• Auriculella Pfeiffer, 1854 - type genus of the subfamily Auriculellinae^[5]

Elasmatininae

• tribe Elasmatinini
• tribe Antonellini
• tribe Tubuaiini
  • Tubuaia

Pacificellinae

• tribe Pacificellini
  • Tornatellinops Pilsbry & Cooke, 1915
• tribe Lamellideini
  • Lamellidea Pilsbry, 1910

Tekoulininae

Tornatellidinae

• tribe Tornatellidini
  • Tornatellides Pilsbry, 1910 - type genus of the tribe Tornatellidini
• tribe Tornatellariini
  • Tornatellaria Pilsbry, 1910 - type genus of the tribe Tornatellariini

Tornatellininae

• tribe Tornatellinini
  • Tornatellina L. Pfeiffer, 1842 - type genus the tribe Tornatellinini
• tribe Elasmiatini
  • Elasmias Pilsbry, 1910 - type genus of the tribe Elasmiatini

unsorted

• Gulickia Cooke, 1915^[6]
• Tornatellinops Pilsbry, 1915
• Tornelasmias Iredale, 1944

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. 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.

External links

• "Achatinellidae". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).