Acochlidiidae

Acochlidiidae
A live individual of Acochlidium fijiiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Acochlidiacea
clade Hedylopsacea[1]
Family: Acochlidiidae
Küthe, 1935[2]
Diversity[1][3]
Altogether 3 genera and 6 species; 5 freshwater species, one in brackish waters.
Synonyms[1]

Palliohedylidae Rankin, 1979

Acochlidiidae are a taxonomic family of shell-less freshwater gastropods (one of them Palliohedyle weberi lives in brackish water),[1] aquatic gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.

2005 taxonomy

Acochlidiidae was classified as the only family within the superfamily Acochlidioidea Küthe, 1935 in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[4] Palliohedylidae was in turn classified as the only family within the superfamily Palliohedyloidea.[4]

2010 taxonomy

Schrödl & Neusser (2010)[1] redefined the taxonomy of Acochlidiacea in 2010,placing the family Acochlidiidae in the clade Hedylopsacea.[1]

Genera

According to the Schrödl & Neusser (2010)[1] there are three genera in the family Acochlidiidae:[1]

Acochlidium Strubel, 1892[1][5]

Palliohedyle Rankin, 1979[1]

Strubellia Odhner, 1937[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
  2. (German) Küthe P. (7 June 1935) "Organisation und systematische Stellung der Acochlidium paradoxum Strubell". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abt. für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Thiere, 66(6): 514-540, 8 plates. Acochlidiidae is on the page 539.
  3. Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
  4. 1 2 Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  5. Strubell (1892). Verh. naturh. Ver. Rheinlande 49: 62.
  6. 1 2 3 Rudman W. B. (17 June 2006). "Comment on Are there freshwater sea slugs? by Dave". Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/16865 accessed 23 May 2010.
  7. Haynes A. & Kenchington W. (1991). "Acochlidium fijiiensis sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Acochlidiacea) from Fiji". The Veliger 34(2): 166-171.
  8. Rudman W. B. (23 March 2010). "Acochlidium fijiiensis Haynes & Kenchington, 1991". Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet/acocfiji accessed 23 may 2010.
  9. Wawra E. (1979). "Acochlidium sutteri nov. spec. (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Acochlidiacea) von Sumba, Indonesien". Ann. Naturhistor. Mus. Wien 82: 595-604. PDF
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