Coelociontidae

Coelociontidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Orthalicoidea
Family:	Coelociontidae Iredale, 1937 [1]
Synonyms [2]
Perrieriinae Schileyko, 1999

Coelociontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). ^[2]

This family has no subfamilies. ^[2]

Genera

Distribution map of Coelocion australis

Genera within the family Coelociontidae include:

• Coelocion Pilsbry, 1904 - type genus of the family Coelociontidae ^[2]
  • Coelocion australis Forbes
• Perrieria Tapparone Canefri, 1878 ^{[2] [3]}
  • Perrieria clausiliaeformis Tapparone Canefri, 1878 ^[4]

References

1. Iredale T. (1937). The Australian Zoologist 8(4): 306.
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. Tapparone-Canefri C. M. (1878). "Description d'un genre nouveau de Mollusque terrestre provenant de la Nouvelle-Guinée". Journal de Conchyliologie 26: 169-170.
4. Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocyclidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae, Subulinidae, Glessulidae, Micractaeonidae, Ferrussaciidae". In: Ruthenica., Supplement, 2(4): 435-564, Moscow, ISSN 0136-0027. page 540.

External links

• Media related to Coelociontidae at Wikimedia Commons