Littorinoidea
Littorinoidea | |
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Apertural view of a shell and an operculum of the land snail Tudorella sulcata in the family Pomatiidae | |
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The land snail Tropidophora fimbriata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Littorinoidea Children, 1834[1] |
Families | |
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Littorinoidea are a superfamily of both sea snails and land snails which have a gill and an operculum, terrestrial and marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.[2]
The terrestrial family within this group, the Pomatiidae, are sometimes called "land winkles"[3] because the group originated in the sea and the closely related family Littorinidae are known as "winkles".
Taxonomy[]
These families and subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- Littorinidae Children, 1834 - the periwinkles
- Subfamily Children, 1834
- Subfamily Gray, 1857
- Subfamily Reid, 1989
- † Bohaispiridae Youluo, 1978
- Pickworthiidae Iredale, 1917
- Pomatiidae Newton, 1891 (1828)
- Subfamily Pomatiinae Newton, 1891
- Annulariidae Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
- Subfamily Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
- Subfamily Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
- Subfamily Watters, 2006
- † Purpurinidae Zittel, 1895
- Skeneopsidae Iredale, 1915
- † Tripartellidae Gründel, 2001
- Zerotulidae Warén & Hain, 1996
(Extinct taxa are indicated by a dagger, †.)
- Families brought into synonymy
- Bembiciidae: synonym of Lacuninae
- Cyclostomatidae: synonym of Pomatiidae
- Ericiidae: synonym of Pomatiidae
- Faxiidae: synonym of Sherborniinae
- Lacunidae: synonym of Littorinidae
- Melarhaphidae: synonym of Littorininae
- Reynellonidae: synonym of Pickworthiinae
- Risellidae: synonym of Lacuninae
References[]
- ^ Children, J. G. (1834). Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. ed. 28: 110.
- ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- ^ Journal of Molluscan Studies, GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE LAND WINKLE POMATIAS ELEGANS (MÜLLER) (CAENOGASTROPODA: POMATIASIDAE) Volume 67, Issue 2, pp 145–152 (http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/2/145.abstract) Accessed 2014-9-2
Categories:
- Littorinimorpha
- Gastropod superfamilies
- Taxa named by John George Children