Trochomorphidae

Family of gastropods

Trochomorphidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Trochomorphidae
Möllendorff, 1890[1]
Genera

See text

Synonyms[2]

Geotrochidae Schileyko, 2002

Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Since 2017, its classification has been revised and it now belongs to the superfamily Trochomorphoidea[3][2]

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of Trochomorphidae includes eastern-Palearctic, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesia.[4]

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[5]

Genera

Genera within the family Trochomorphidae include:

  • Benthemia Forcart, 1964
  • Brazieria Ancey, 1887
  • Calostropha Ancey, 1887
  • Coxia Ancey, 1887
  • Dendrotrochus Pilsbry, 1894
  • Entomostoma H. B. Baker, 1941
  • Eurybasis Gude, 1913
  • Foxidonta Clench, 1950
  • Geodiscus Iredale, 1941
  • Geotrochus van Hasselt, 1823
  • Hogolua Baker, 1941
  • Kondoa Baker, 1941
  • Liravidena Solem, 1959
  • Orpiella L. Pfeiffer & J. E. Gray, 1855
  • Peleliua H. B. Baker, 1941
  • Probrazieria H. B. Baker, 1941
  • Tegumen Gude, 1913
  • Theskelomensor Iredale, 1933
  • Trochomorpha Albers, 1850 - type genus of the family Trochomorphidae
  • Trochositala Schileyko, 2002
  • Videna A. Adams 1858
  • Videnoida Minato, 1988
  • Vitrinoconus C. Semper, 1873

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[4]

References

  1. ^ Möllendorff (1890). Bericht der Senckengergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a. M. (1889-1890): 210.
  2. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Trochomorphidae Möllendorff, 1890. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=816186 on 2021-02-22
  3. ^ Bouchet, Philippe (2017). "Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families". Malacologia. 61 (1–2): 1–526. doi:10.4002/040.061.0201. S2CID 91051256.
  4. ^ a b Hausdorf B. (March 2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  5. ^ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

Further reading

  • Baker (1941). Bulletin of the Bishop Museum 116: 273.
  • Gude G. K. (1914). Mollusca.−II. (Trochomorphidae--Janellidae)''.The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. London, xii + 520 pp., 164 figs.
  • Vagvolvyi J. (1976). "Body size, aerial dispersal and origin of the Pacific land snail fauna". Syst. Zool 24: 465-488.
Taxon identifiers
Trochomorphidae