Dorcasiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
| Dorcasiidae | |
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| Dorcasia alexandri Gray, 1838 | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
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| Family: | Dorcasiidae |
The family Dorcasiidae has no subfamilies.[2]
Distribution
editFound in southern Africa.[3]
Genera
editGenera within the family Dorcasiidae include:
- Dorcasia Gray, 1838 - the type genus of the family Dorcasiidae[2]
- Trigonephrus Pilsbry, 1905[3]
- Tulbaghinia Melvill & Ponsonby, 1898
References
edit- ^ Connolly M. (1915). "Notes on South African Mollusca". Annals of the South African Museum 13: 99-178. plates 2-4. Page 120, 134.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b Gess F. W. & Gess S. K. (1999). "The use by wasps, bees and spiders of shells of Trigonephrus Pilsb. (Mollusca: Gasteropoda: Dorcasiidae) in desertic winter-rainfall areas in southern Africa". Journal of Arid Environments 43(2): 143-153. doi:10.1006/jare.1999.0549.
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