Pleurodontidae

Pleurodontidae
1868 painting of Pleurodonte bainbridgii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Pleurodontidae H. von Ihering, 1912
Synonyms [1]
Lucerninae Swainson, 1840 Lampadiidae Winckworth, 1945 Solaropsidae H. Nordsieck, 1986 Caracolinae Cuezzo, 2003

Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea. ^[1]

This family is classified within the order Stylommatophora within the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). ^[2] This family has no subfamilies. ^[2]

The family Pleurodontidae includes some American taxa that used to be included within the Australasian family Camaenidae, a taxon whose monophyly was in doubt.

Anatomy

Pleurodontids are defined by a missing diverticulum. The stimulatory organ is equally missing.

Genera

Genera within this family include:

• ColoniconchaPilsbry, 1933 - with the only species Coloniconcha prima Pilsbry, 1933 ^[3]
• Dentellaria Schumacher, 1817 - either separate genus (with a synonym: Lucerna) ^[4] or as a synonym of Pleurodonte ^[5]
• Discolepis Ancey, 1904
• Eurycratera Beck, 1837 ^[6]
  • Eurycratera jamaicensis (Gmelin, 1791) ^[6]
• † Ganeselloides Yen, 1969
• Gonostomopsis Pilsbry, 1889
• Lucerna Swainson, 1840
• Pleurodonte Fischer de Waldheim, 1807
• Thelidomus Swainson, 1840 ^[7] (or in Camaenidae)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Pleurodontidae Ihering, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=870597 on 2021-01-03
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. Breure A. S. H. (2010). "The rediscovery of a semi-slug: Coloniconcha prima Pilsbry, 1933 (Gastropoda, Pleurodontidae) from Hispaniola". Basteria 74(4-6): 78-86.
4. Schileyko A. A. (2006). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 13. Helicidae, Pleurodontidae, Polygyridae, Ammonitellidae, Oreohelicidae, Thysanophoridae". Ruthenica Suppl. 2: 1765-1906. pages 1820.
5. Mónica Lucía Vera Ardila (2008). "Lista de los géneros de moluscos terrestres de Colombia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Mesogastropoda y Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)" (PDF). Biota Colombiana. 9 (1): 39–62. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
6. Rosenberg G. & Muratov I. V. (2006). "Status Report on the Terrestrial Mollusca of Jamaica" Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 155(1): 117-161. doi : 10.1635/i0097-3157-155-1-117.1.
7. Bank, R. (July 2017). "Thelidomus Swainson, 1840". WORMS - World Register of Marine Species.

External links

• Hartmut Nordsieck, Higher classification of Helicoidea and the molecular analyses of their phylogeny