Amnicolidae

Amnicolidae
Drawing of the shell of Amnicola dalli with the operculum next to it
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Amnicolidae
Tryon, 1863
Genera

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Diversity[1]
about 200 freshwater species

Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.

This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.

Subfamilies

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

Genera

Genera in the family Amnicolidae include:

subfamily Amnicolinae

subfamily Baicaliinae

subfamily Emmericiinae Brusina, 1870

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 1 2 Davis G. M., Kuo Y.-H. Hoagland K. E., Chen P.-L., Yang H.-M. & Chen D.-J. (1985). "Erhaia, a new genus and new species of Pomatiopsidae from China (Gastropoda: Rissoacea)". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 137: 48-78. page 66. JSTOR 4064860.
  4. Davis G. M. & Rao S. (1997). "Discovery of Erhaia (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) in northern India with description of a new genus of Erhaiini from China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48: 273-299. JSTOR.
  5. Szarowska M. (2006). "Molecular phylogeny, systematics and morphological character evolution in the Balkan Rissooidea (Caenogastropoda)". Folia Malacologica 14: 99-168. PDF.
  6. Bouchet, P. (2012). Rachipteron F.G. Thompson, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=607117 on 2012-08-10
  7. Fazalova V., Nevado B., Peretolchina T., Petunina J. & Sherbakov D. (2010). "When environmental changes do not cause geographic separation of fauna: differential responses of Baikalian invertebrates". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 320. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-320.

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