Streptaxidae

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Streptaxidae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Gray, 1860 [1]
Subfamilies

Enneinae Bourguignat, 1883
Marconiinae Schileyko, 2000
Odontartemoninae Schileyko, 2000
Orthogibbinae Germain, 1921
Streptaxinae Gray, 1860

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Diversity [2]
about 1000 species, about 60 genera

Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.

Streptaxidae are carnivorous except for one species Edentulina moreleti , which is herbivorous. [3] All streptaxids have well-developed radula, except Careoradula perelegans , which is the only known terrestrial gastropod without radula. [4]

Altogether 66 species from the family Streptaxidae are listed in the 2010 IUCN Red List . [5]

Distribution

The historical area of origin of the Streptaxidae is probably Gondwanaland. [6]

The family is widely distributed across the tropical and subtropical areas of South America, Africa and Asia. [7] The Recent native distribution of Streptaxidae includes South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mayotte, Comores, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, India, Sri Lanka, Andamans, South-East Asia and the Philippines. [2] The genus Gibbulinella is found in the Canary Islands. [2]

The species diversity of Streptaxidae reaches its maximum in sub-Saharan Africa. [7]

With 13 genera and about 130 nominal species, the second most diverse streptaxid fauna can be found in Southeast Asia. [7] Streptaxidae are the most diverse among tropical Asian carnivorous snails. [7] In Indochina, streptaxid diversity was thought to comprise only 10 genera and about 40 species in 1967. [8] However, in 2006–2016, 21 new species (more than half the previous total) and one new genus had been described from Indochina. [8] Thirty-seven species are recorded from Thailand, 10 from Myanmar, 45 from Vietnam, [8] [9] and 12 from Laos. [8]

Description

Streptaxids can generally be recognized by their eccentric or cylindrical shells, while the animals have a bright yellow to red or orange body with external hook-like structures on the everted penis. [7]

Early classifications of the family such as Wilhelm Kobelt (1905–6), used mainly shell shape and the arrangement of apertural dentition. [8] However, many shell characters are highly conserved or occur recurrently, making some species and genera difficult to separate. [8] The reproductive organs of streptaxids can also be taxonomically significant. [8]

Taxonomy

Prior to Schileyko's revision in 2000 only two subfamilies, the Streptaxinae and the Enneinae had been recognized, which were primarily based on their shell morphology. [7]

2005 taxonomy

Only the one family, Streptaxidae, was recognized within the Streptaxoidea in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005). [10]

There are 6 subfamilies in the family Streptaxidae according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, that follows Schileyko (2000): [11]

2010 taxonomy

Sutcharit et al. (2010) [2] have established a new family Diapheridae within Streptaxoidea and they have added two genera Diaphera and Sinoennea into Diapheridae. [2]

In the recent decades, most of the taxonomic and systematic research on streptaxids has been performed on sub-Saharan African taxa. [7] Only a few publications focus on South American or Asian groups. [7]

Genera

Genera in the family Streptaxidae include:

Streptaxinae

Enneinae

Marconiinae

Odontartemoninae

Orthogibbinae

Unsorted to subfamily:

Notes

Synonyms

See also

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References

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