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 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea |
| Family: | Amphibolidae J. E. Gray, 1840 |
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| 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
edit2005 taxonomy
editAccording 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
editJörger et al. (2010)[3] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.
Genera
editGenera 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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- ^ a b c d e f Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)". Zootaxa 1476: 1–50. abstract.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323.