Amphibolidae

Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.

Amphibolidae
A shell of the mud-flat snail, Amphibola crenata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
Superfamily:
Amphiboloidea
Family:
Amphibolidae

J. E. Gray, 1840
Genera

See text.

Diversity[1]
4 genera, 12 species
Synonyms[2]

This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming veliger stage.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it was an only family within a superfamily Amphiboloidea in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.[2]

2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010)[3] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.

Genera

Genera and species within the family Amphibolidae include:

Genera brought into synonymy
  • Ampullacera Quoy & Gaimard, 1832: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
  • Thallicera Swainson, 1840: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
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References
  1. Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)". Zootaxa 1476: 1-50. abstract.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323.
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