Plectopylidae

Plectopylidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

Superfamily: Plectopyloidea
Family: Plectopylidae
Möllendorff, 1898
Genera

See text

Plectopylidae is a taxonomic family of large air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Plectopyloidea.[1]

Distribution

The range of the family Plectopylidae (Plectopylis Benson 1860 s. l. and Amphicoelina Haas 1933) extends from Nepal and Northeastern India through large part of Southeastern Asia (including the Malay Peninsula, Northern Thailand, Northern Vietnam, Central and Southern China) to Taiwan and Southern Japan. Up to now, the distribution of Plectopylidae is divided into two geographic regions: (1) Nepal, Northeastern India (Assam and Arunachal Pradesh), Myanmar (=Burma), western Yunnan, western part of Thailand, Northern Malaysia and northwestern part of Laos, and (2) Northern Vietnam, Southern China (west of the Eastern Yunnan–Guizhou–Middle Sichuan line), Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands.[2][3]

Taxonomy

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera and species

Amphicoelina Haas 1933 [4]

Chersaecia Gude 1899[3]

Endoplon Gude 1899[3]

Endothyrella Zilch, 1959[5]

Gudeodiscus Páll-Gergely 2013[2]

Plectopylis Benson 1860 the type genus

Sicradiscus Páll-Gergely 2013[2]

Sinicola Gude 1899[3]

References

  1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2).
  2. 1 2 3 Páll-Gergely, B. & Hunyadi, A (2013). "The family Plectopylidae Möllendorff 1898 in China (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 142 (1): 1-66.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Gude, G. K. (1899). "Armature of Helicoid landshells and new sections of Plectopylis". Science Gossip 6: 147-149.
  4. Haas, E (1933). "Zur Systematik der chinesischen "Helicodonten".". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 65 (4/5): 230–231.
  5. Zilch A (1959-1960). "Handbuch der Paleozoologie, 6 (2) Euthyneura. — 481–834; Berlin (Gebrüder Borntraeger)."
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