Paludomidae

Paludomidae
Drawing of an apertural view of a shell of Cleopatra ferruginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Paludomidae Stoliczka, 1868[1]
Diversity[2]
about 100 freshwater species

Paludomidae, common name paludomids, is a family of freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.^[3]

Distribution

The distribution of the Paludomidae includes Asia and Africa.

Taxonomy

The following three subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

• Paludominae Stoliczka, 1868 - synonym: Philopotamidinae Stache, 1889
• Cleopatrinae Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927^[4]
• Hauttecoeuriinae Bourguignat, 1885^[5]
  • tribe Hauttecoeuriini Bourguignat, 1885 - synonym: Tanganyiciinae Bandel, 1998
  • tribe Nassopsini Kesteven, 1903^[6] - synonym: Lavigeriidae Thile, 1925
  • tribe Rumellini Ancey, 1906^[7]
  • tribe Spekiini Ancey, 1906^[7] - synonyms: Giraudiidae Bourguignat, 1885 (inv.); Reymondiinae Bandel, 1998
  • tribe Syrnolopsini Bourguignat, 1890^[8]
  • tribe Tiphobiini Bourguignat, 1886^[9] - synonyms: Hilacanthidae Bourguignat, 1890; Paramelaniidae J. E. S. Moore, 1898; Bathanaliidae Ancey, 1906; Limnotrochidae Ancey, 1906

Genera

Genera within the family Paludomidae include:

Paludominae

• Paludomus Swainson, 1840 - type genus of the family Paludomidae^[3]

Cleopatrinae

• Cleopatra Troschel, 1857 - type genus of the subfamily Cleopatrinae^[3]

Hauttecoeuriinae

tribe Hauttecoeuriini

• Tanganyicia Crosse, 1881 - synonym: Hauttecoeuria Bourguignat, 1885^[3]

tribe Nassopsini

• Lavigeria Bourguignat, 1888
• Nassopsis E. A. Smith, 1890 - type genus of the tribe Nassopsini^[3]

tribe Rumellini

• Rumella Bourguignat, 1885 - type genus of the tribe Rumellini^[3]

tribe Spekiini

• Bridouxia Bourguignat, 1885^[3][10]
• Reymondia Bourguignat, 1885^[3]
• Spekia Bourguignat, 1879 - type genus of the tribe Spekiini^[3]

tribe Syrnolopsini

• Syrnolopsis E. A. Smith, 1880 - type genus of the tribe Syrnolopsini^[3]

tribe Tiphobiini

• Bathanalia Moore, 1898^[3][11]
• Chytra Moore, 1898 - with the only species Chytra kirki (E. A. Smith, 1880)^[10][11][12]
• Limnotrochus Smith, 1880 - with the only species Limnotrochus thomsoni Smith, 1880^[10][11]
• Mysorelloides Leloup, 1953^[11] - with the only species Mysorelloides multisulcata (Bourguignat, 1888)^[10]
• Paramelania Smith, 1881^[3][11]
• Tiphobia E. A. Smith, 1880 - type genus of the tribe Tiphobiini,^[3] with the only species Tiphobia horei E. A. Smith, 1880^[10]

subfamily ?

• Anceya Bourguignat, 1885^[13]
• Hirthia Ancey, 1898^[14]
• Martelia Dautzenberg, 1908^[15]
• Potadomoides Leloup, 1953^[16]
• Pseudocleopatra Thiele, 1928
• Stanleya Bourguignat, 1885 - probably with the only species Stanleya neritinoides Smith, 1880^[10][17]
• Stormsia Leloup, 1953 - with the only species Stormsia minima (Smith, 1908)^[10][18]
• Vinundu Michel, 2004

References

1. Stoliczka F. (1868). "Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India. Paleontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the Geological Survey of India." Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 2(5): 205-244. Plates 17-18. page 207.
2. Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. http://hdl.handle.net/10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
3. 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.
4. Pilsbry H. A. & Bequaert (1927). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 53: 249.
5. Bourguignat J. R. (1885). Notice prodromique sur les Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles ... dans la région méridionale du lac Tanganika 10: 41.
6. Kesteven (1903). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27(4): 621, 634.
7. Ancey C. F. (1906). "Réflexions sur la Faune Malacologique du Lac Tanganika et Catalogue des Mollusques de ce Lac". Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 40: 229-270. 245-246.
8. Bourguignat J. R. (1890). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie ser. 7, 10 (Art. 1): 139.
9. Bourguignat J. R. (1886). Bulletin de la Société malacologique de France 3: 143.
10. Brown D. S. (1994). Freshwater Snails of Africa and their Medical Importance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-7484-0026-5.
11. Strong E. E. & Glaubrecht M. (2010). "Anatomy of the Tiphobiini from Lake Tanganyika (Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)". Malacologia 52(1): 115-153. doi:10.4002/040.052.0108.
12. Nicayenzi F., Ngereza C. & Lange C. N. (2004). Chytra kirki. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 6 August 2007.
13. Ngereza C. (2004). Anceya giraudi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 June 2011.
14. Ngereza C. (2004). Hirthia globosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 June 2011.
15. Lange C. (2004). Martelia tanganyicensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 June 2011.
16. Ngereza C. (2004). Potadomoides pelseneeri. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 June 2011.
17. Lange C. (2004). Stanleya neritinoides. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 May 2011.
18. Nicayenzi F. & Ngereza C. & Lange C. (2004). Stormsia minima. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 June 2011.

Further reading

• Glaubrecht M. & Strong E. E. (September 2004) "Spermatophores of thalassoid gastropods (Paludomidae) in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, with a survey of their occurrence in Cerithioidea: functional and phylogenetic implications". Invertebrate Biology 123(3): 218-236. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2004.tb00157.x

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