Cochlicopidae
| Cochlicopidae | |
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| a live Cochlicopa lubrica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | |
| Phylum: | Mollusca
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| Class: | Gastropoda
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| Order: | |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Cochlicopoidea
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| Family: | Cochlicopidae Pilsbry, 1900 (1879)
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Cochlicopidae is a taxonomic family of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cochlicopoidea.
Anatomy[]
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[1]
Taxonomy[]
The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- subfamily Cochlicopinae Pilsbry, 1900 (1879) - synonyms: Cionellidae L. Pfeiffer, 1879; Zuidae Bourguignat, 1884
- subfamily Watson, 1920 - synonym: Cryptazecinae Schileyko, 1999
Genera[]
The family Cochlicopidae includes the following genera:
subfamily Cochlicopinae
- Cochlicopa Férussac, 1821 - synonym: Cionella Jeffreys, 1830[2]
subfamily Azecinae
- Azeca Fleming, 1828
- Cryptazeca Folin & Bérillon, 1877
- Hypnophila Bourguignat, 1858[3]
References[]
- ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
- ^ "Cochlicopa A. Ferussac 1821". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 September 2010.
- ^ "Hypnophila Bourguignat 1858". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 September 2010.
External links[]
Media related to Cochlicopidae at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Cochlicopidae