Parmacellidae

Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Parmacellidae Temporal range: ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent[1]
Parmacella valenciennii
Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade
Superfamily:	Parmacelloidea
Family:	Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856 (1855)
Genera
See text
Synonyms
Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)[2]

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

Distribution

The distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western Palearctic,[3] and ranges from the Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan.[1]

Genera

Genera within family Parmacellidae include:

• Candaharia Godwin-Austen, 1888[4]
  • subgenus Levanderiella Schileyko, 2007[5]
• Cryptella Webb & Berthelot, 1833[6]
• Parmacella Cuvier, 1804[6] - type genus

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade:[3]

limacoid clade

Staffordioidea  Staffordiidae        Dyakioidea  Dyakiidae    Gastrodontoidea    Pristilomatidae       Chronidae       Euconulidae     Trochomorphidae         Gastrodontidae     Oxychilidae              Parmacelloidea    Trigonochlamydidae     Parmacellidae     Milacidae          Zonitoidea  Zonitidae    Helicarionoidea    Helicarionidae       Ariophantidae     Urocyclidae          Limacoidea    Vitrinidae       Boettgerillidae       Limacidae     Agriolimacidae

References

1. "Family summary for Parmacellidae". AnimalBase, last modified 21 February 2009, accessed 1 September 2010.
2. Schileyko A. A. (2003). "On the conservation of the name Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856". Ruthenica 13(2): 167-168. PDF.
3. Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
4. Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "CATALOGUE OF THE CONTINENTAL MOLLUSKS OF RUSSIA AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES". Version 2.3.
5. Schileyko A. A. (2007). "Levanderiella, a new name for Levanderia Likharev et Wiktor, 1980 (Pulmonata, Parmacellidae)". Ruthenica 17(1-2): 84. PDF.
6. Parmacellidae. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.

Further reading

• Schileyko A. A. (2003). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. 10. Ariophantidae, Ostracolethaidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2. 1309-1466.

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