Epiphragmophoridae

Epiphragmophoridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[3] This family has no subfamilies.[3]

Epiphragmophoridae
live Minaselates paradoxa
Epiphragmophora clausomphalos shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Epiphragmophoridae

Hoffmann, 1928[1]
Diversity[2]
65 species

Shileyko (2004) listed 40 species within Epiphragmophoridae.[4] There are recognized 65 species within Epiphragmophoridae in 2017.[2]

Anatomy

This family is defined by the absence of a diverticulum. These snails have one dart apparatus with a stylophore (dart sac), and one or two mucus glands that are inserted on the dart sac and on the accessory sac, or at the base of the dart sac.

Genera

Genera within the family Epiphragmophoridae include:

References
  1. Hoffmann H. (1928). Dr. H. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs Band 3, Mollusca. Abteilung 2, Gastropoda. Buch 2, Pulmonata. Lieferung 151. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig: 1221-1354. page 1239.
  2. Cuezzo, Maria Gabriela; Pena, Meire Silva (2017-04-27). "Minaselates, a new genus and new species of Epiphragmophoridae from Brazil (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicoidea)". Zoologia. 34: 1–12. doi:10.3897/zoologia.34.e13230. ISSN 1984-4689.
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Schileyko A. A. (2004). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 12: Bradybaenidae, Monadeniidae, Xanthonychidae, Epiphragmophoridae, Helminthoglyptidae, Elonidae, Humboldtianidae, Sphincterochilidae, Cochlicellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2, Moscow. (ISSN 0136-0027)
  5. Döring, D. A. (1874). "Apuntes sobre la fauna de moluscos de la Republica Argentina". Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas. 1 (424–460): 446.
  6. Cuezzo, M. G. (2006). "Systematic Revision and Cladistic Analysis of Epiphragmophora Doering from Argentina and Southern Bolivia (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Xanthonychidae)". Malacologia. 49 (1): 121–188. doi:10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.121.

Further reading
  • Fernández, D.; Rumi, A. (1984). "Revisión del género Epiphragmophora de la malacofauna terrestre Argentina". Acta Zoológica Lilloana. 37 (2): 231–272.
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