Parmacellidae

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Parmacellidae
Temporal range: ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent [1]
Parmacella valenciennii.jpg
Parmacella valenciennii
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Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Parmacelloidea
Family: Parmacellidae
P. Fischer, 1856 (1855)
Genera

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Synonyms

Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum) [2]

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).

Contents

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:

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "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". Ruthenica13(2): 167-168. PDF.
  3. 1 2 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)". Ruthenica17(1-2): 84. PDF.
  6. 1 2 Parmacellidae. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.

Further reading