Amnicolidae

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Amnicolidae
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Drawing of the shell of Amnicola dalli with the operculum next to it
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Amnicolidae
Tryon, 1863
Diversity [1]
About 200 freshwater species
Synonyms
  • Amnicolinae Tryon, 1863 superseded rank
  • Erhaiini G. M. Davis & Y.-H. Kuo, 1985
  • Kolhymamnicolidae Starobogatov, 1983
  • Lyogyrinae Pilsbry, 1916
  • Parabythinellinae Radoman, 1976
  • Pseudobythinellini G. M. Davis & C.-E. Chen, 1992

Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.

Contents

This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.

Subfamilies

The family Amnicolidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): [2]

Genera

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<i>Amnicola</i> Genus of gastropods

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Erhaia is a genus of small to minute freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Amnicolidae.

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References

  1. ↑ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl: 10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
  2. ↑ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
  3. 1 2 Davis G. M., Kuo Y.-H. Hoagland K. E., Chen P.-L., Yang H.-M. & Chen D.-J. (1985). Erhaia, a new genus and new species of Pomatiopsidae from China (Gastropoda: Rissoacea). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , 137, 48–78.
  4. ↑ Davis G. M. & Rao S. (1997). "Discovery of Erhaia (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) in northern India with description of a new genus of Erhaiini from China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48: 273-299. JSTOR.
  5. ↑ Thompson F. G. (1964). A new aquatic snail of the family Amnicolidae from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical, 12(1), 97–105.


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