Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
Amphibolidae | |
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A shell of the mud-flat snail, Amphibola crenata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea |
Family: | Amphibolidae J. E. Gray, 1840 |
Genera | |
See text. | |
Diversity[1] | |
4 genera, 12 species | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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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
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