Amphibolidae

Amphibolidae
A shell of the mud-flat snail, Amphibola crenata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Amphiboloidea
Family:	Amphibolidae J. E. Gray, 1840
Genera
See text.
Diversity [1]
4 genera, 12 species
Synonyms [2]
Ampullaceridae Troschel, 1845 Salinatoridae Starobogatov, 1970

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

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:

• Amphibola Schumacher, 1817 ^[1]
• Lactiforis Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007 ^[1]
• Naranjia Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007 ^[1] - with the only one species: Naranjia swatowensis (Yen, 1939) ^[1]
• Phallomedusa Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007
• Salinator Hedley, 1900 ^[1]

Genera brought into synonymy

• Ampullacera Quoy & Gaimard, 1832: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
• Thallicera Swainson, 1840: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817

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 . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 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 .