Acavidae
| Acavidae | |
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| A live individual of Helicophanta gloriosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Rhytidoidea |
| Family: | Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895 |
| Genera | |
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Acavidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rhytidoidea.[1]
Anatomy
[edit]In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).[2]
Genera
[edit]The family Acavidae has no subfamilies.
Genera in the family Acavidae include:[3]
- Acavus Montfort, 1810
- Ampelita Beck, 1837
- Embertoniphanta Groh & Poppe, 2002
- Eurystyla Ancey, 1887
- Helicophanta Férussac, 1821
- Oligospira Ancey, 1887
- † Pebasiconcha Wesselingh & Gittenberger, 1999 - with the only species † Pebasiconcha immanis Wesselingh & Gittenberger, 1999[4]
- Reticulapex Emberton & Pearce, 2000
- Stylodonta De Cristofori & Jan, 1832
- Genera brought into synonymy
- Acavella Jousseaume, 1894: synonym of Oligospira Ancey, 1887
- Columplica W. Hartmann, 1843: synonym of Stylodonta De Cristofori & Jan, 1832
- Poecilostylus Pilsbry, 1890: synonym of Eurystyla Ancey, 1887
- Stylodon H. Beck, 1837: synonym of Stylodonta De Cristofori & Jan, 1832
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871059 on 2024-12-06
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acavidae cited 11 October 2008
- ^ Wesselingh F. P. (2006). "Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia". Scripta Geologica 133: 19-290. Figure 274. abstract, PDF
External links
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