Helicinidae

Helicinidae is a family of small tropical land snails which have an operculum. They are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicinoidea.

Helicinidae
A live individual of Helicina rhodostoma
A live individual of Alcadia conuloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Neritimorpha
Clade: Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family: Helicinidae
Férussac, 1822
Genera

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Diversity[1]
770-1400 species (estimation)

These snails are not at all closely related to the air-breathing land snails, despite a superficial similarity of the shells.

Distribution

These snails are found in tropical and subtropical areas but they have an odd distribution: they are restricted to the Caribbean islands and some Indo-Pacific and Pacific islands, as well as the edge of the Asian and Australian continents.

Taxonomy

Helicinidae belongs to superfamily Helicinoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

This family consists of six following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

  • Helicininae Férussac, 1822 - synonym: Olygyridae Gray, 1847; Bourcierinae Paetel, 1890
  • Ceratodiscinae Pilsbry, 1927
  • † Dimorphoptychiinae Wenz, 1938[3]
  • Hendersoniinae H. B. Baker, 1926
  • Stoastomatinae C. B. Adams, 1849
  • Vianinae H. B. Baker, 1922

Genera

Genera within the family Helicinidae include:

Subfamily Helicininae

  • Alcadia Gray, 1840
  • Bourciera Pfeiffer, 1852
  • Helicina Lamarck, 1799 - type genus of the family Helicinidae[2]
  • Hemipoma Wagner, 1905
  • Lucidella Swainson, 1840
  • Ogasawarana Wagner, 1905
  • Olygyra Say, 1818
  • Orobophana Wagner, 1905[4]
  • Pleuropoma Moellendorff, 1893[4]
  • Schasicheila Shuttleworth, 1852
  • Stoastomops Baker, 1924
  • Sturanya Wagner, 1905

subfamily Ceratodiscinae

  • Ceratodiscus Simpson & Henderson, 1901 - type genus of the subfamily Ceratodiscinae[2]

Subfamily † Dimorphoptychiinae

Subfamily Hendersoniinae

  • Hendersonia A. J. Wagner, 1905 - type genus of the subfamily Hendersoniinae[2]
  • Waldemaria Wagner, 1905

Subfamily Stoastomatinae

  • Stoastoma C. B. Adams, 1849 - type genus of the subfamily Stoastomatinae[2]

Subfamily Vianinae

  • Calidviana Baker, 1954
  • Calybium Morelet, 1891
  • Eutrochatella Fischer, 1885
  • Geophorus Fischer, 1885
  • Heudeia Crosse, 1885
  • Pseudotrochatella Nevill, 1881
  • Pyrgodomus Fischer & Crosse, 1893
  • Viana H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856 - type genus of the subfamily Vianinae[2]

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References
  1. Richling I. (2014). "Poorly explored jewels of the tropics: Estimating diversity in non-pulmonate land snails of the family Helicinidae (Gastropoda: Neritopsina)". American Malacological Bulletin 32(2): 246-258. doi:10.4003/006.032.0216.
  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. Wenz W. (1938). "Teil 1: Allgememeiner Teil und Prosobranchia". In: Schindewolf O. H. (ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6, Gastropoda, Borntraeger, Berlin, 6(1): 1-240. pages 53-54.
  4. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B (1998): 353, 347.
  5. "Mollusca" Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  6. Mollusc Specialist Group (1996). Sturanyella carolinarum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 June 2011.

Further reading
  • Richling I. (2001). "New species of Helicinidae from Costa Rica (Gastropoda: Neritopsina)". Schriften zur Malakozoologie 17: 1-8. Cismar.
  • Richling I. (2004). "Classification of the Helicinidae: Review of Morphological Characteristics Based on a Revision of the Costa Rican Species and Application to the Arrangement of the Central American Mainland Taxa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neritopsina)". Malacologica 45(2): 195-440.
  • Richling I. (2004). "Coloration in Helicinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neritopsina)". Malacologia 46(1): 217-224.
  • Richling I. (2005). "Biographical remarks on Dr. Antoni Józef Wagner and the collection of Helicinidae in the Museum and Institute of Zoology in Warszawa". Folia Malacologica 13(4): 197-206.
  • Richling I. & Glaubrecht M. (2008). "The types of Neotropical Helicinidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neritopsina) in the Malacological Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: an annotated catalogue, with emphasis on Cuban land snails". Zoosystematics and Evolution 84(2): 265-310. doi:10.1002/zoos.200800011.
  • Richling I. (2009). "The Radiation of the Helicinidae in New Caledonia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neritopsina) including zoogeographical considerations". In: Grandcolas P. (ed.). "Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia". Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 198: 247-372. Paris. abstract

species specific reading:

  • Richling I., Franke S., Fernánndez V. A. & Sigaretta V., S. (2007). "New data on the micro-land snails Eutrochatella (Microviana) spinopoma Aguayo 1943 and Eutrochatella (Microviana) holguinensis Aguayo 1932 (Neritopsina: Helicinidae) in the province of Holguín, eastern Cuba". Schriften zur Malakozoologie 23: 19-24. Cismar.
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