Urocoptidae
| Urocoptidae | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Apertural view of a shell of Holospira elizabethae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
| Family: | Urocoptidae Pilsbry, 1898[1] (1868) |
Urocoptidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.[2]
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy
The Urocoptidae family was classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[3]
The family Urocoptidae consists of 7 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Urocoptinae Pilsbry, 1898 (1868) - synonym: Cylindrellidae Tryon, 1868
- Apomatinae Paul, 1982
- Brachypodellinae H. B. Baker, 1956
- Eucalodiinae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1873
- Holospirinae Pilsbry, 1946
- Microceraminae Pilsbry, 1904 - synonyms: Johaniceraminae Jaume & de la Torre, 1972; Macroceraminae Jaume & de la Torre, 1972
- Tetrentodontinae Bartsch, 1943
2008 taxonomy
Uit de Weerd (2008)[2] moved the Urocoptidae to the newly established superfamily Urocoptoidea based on molecular phylogeny research.[2]
The following cladogram based on Bayesian analysis of sequences of 28S ribosomal RNA shows the phylogenic relations within the Urocoptoidea.[2] There are up to 2008 genetically analyzed species of Urocoptidae and one species of Cerionidae marked in khaki color in the cladogram.[2]
| Urocoptoidea |
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |
2012 taxonomy
Fred G. Thompson established the family Epirobiidae in 2012 for five genera of snails (Epirobia, Propilsbrya, Pectinistemma, Gyrocion, Prionoloplax), that were previously placed within Urocoptidae.[4] Data from molecular phylogeny research as well as morphology supports monophyly of Holospiridae Pilsbry, 1946 and the Eucalodiidae Crosse & Fischer, 1868.[4]
Genera
Genera in the family Urocoptidae include:
Urocoptinae
- Autocoptis Pilsbry, 1902[2]
- Cylindrella L. Pfeiffer, 1840
- Urocoptis Beck, 1837 - type genus of the family Urocoptidae[3]
Apominae
Brachypodellinae
- Brachypodella Beck, 1837 - type genus of the subfamily Brachypodellinae[3]
Eucalodiinae
- Anisospira Strebel, 1880[2]
- Archegocoptis Pilsbry, 1903[2]
- Dissotropis Bartsch, 1906[2]
- Eucalodium Crosse & P. Fischer, 1868 - type genus of the subfamily Eucalodiinae[3]
Holospirinae
- Coelostemma Dall, 1895[2]
- Hendersoniella Dall, 1905[2]
- Holospira Martens, 1860 - type genus of the subfamily Holospirinae[3]
Microceraminae
- Microceramus Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898 - type genus of the subfamily Microceraminae[3]
- Macroceramus Guilding, 1828[2]
Tetrentodontinae
- Tetrentodon Pilsbry, 1903 - type genus of the subfamily Tetrentodontinae[3]
- Torrecoptis Bartsch, 1943[2]
Other genera include:[5]
- Allocoptis Thompson & Franz, 1976
- Amphicosmia Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
- Anoma
- Arangia
- Bactrocoptis
- Badiofax
- Bostrichocentrum
- Bostrychocentrum
- Callonia
- Centralia
- Cochlodinella
- Coelocentrum
- Geoscala
- Gongylostoma
- Gyraxis
- Haplocion
- Heterocoptis
- Idiostemma
- Liocallonia
- Metastoma
- Mychostoma
- Nesocoptis
- Nodulia
- Oligostylus
- Organocoptis
- Pfeiffericoptis
- Pineria
- Pleurostemma
- Poeycoptis
- Pseudopineria
- Pycnoptychia Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
- Sagracoptis
- Spiroceramus
- Spirostemma
- Strophina
- Tomelasmus
- Trilamellaxis
- Uncinicoptis
References
- ↑ Pilsbry H. A. (1898). The Nautilus 11(9): 107.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Uit De Weerd, D. R. (2008). "Delimitation and phylogenetics of the diverse land-snail family Urocoptidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) based on 28S rRNA sequence data: A reunion with Cerion". Journal of Molluscan Studies 74 (4): 317–29. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyn023.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 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.
- 1 2 Thompson F. G. (2012). "The land snail genus Epirobia and allied genera in México and Central America, with the description of a new family, the Epirobiidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Urocoptoidea)". Bulletin Florida Museum of Natural History 51: 167-215. PDF.
- ↑ http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?search=Urocoptidae
Further reading
- Bartsch P. 1943. Notes on Mexican Urocoptid mollusks. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 33(2): 54-59; 7 figs.
- Carlos de la Torre. 1912. New Cuban Urocoptis of the U. cinerea group. The Nautilus, volume 26, number 4, pages 55-58, plate 6.
- Kabat A. R., Herschler R. & González G. A. (2012). "Resolution of taxonomic problems associated with the complex publication history of the seminal Torre and Bartsch monograph on Cuban Urocoptidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)". Zootaxa 3362: 43-53. PDF.
- Pilsbry H. A. & Henderson J. B. jr. (February 1913). Two new Cuban Urocoptidae. The Nautilus, volume 26, number 10, pages 109-110.
- (Spanish) Miguel L. Jaume & Alfredo de la Torre. 1976. Los Urocoptidae de Cuba (Mollusca-Pulmonata). Série 4: Ciencias biologicas; no. 53. La Habana, Cuba: Centro de Información Cientifica y Tecnica, 122 pp.
- Mesa Garcia, R; Jaume, ML (1982). "Zoogeography, ecology, and protection of the Urocoptidae family in Cuba (Gastropoda-Pulmonata). II". Revista cubana de medicina tropical 34 (2): 172–92. PMID 6763741.
- Richardson C. L. 1991. Urocoptidae: catalogue of species. Tryonia 22: 1-245.
- Tryon G. W. (1903) Manual of Conchology. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 15. Urocoptidae. Continued by H. A. Pilsbry.
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Urocoptidae. |
- "Urocoptidae". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- photos
- photos
- blog Bram's Snail Site with photos