- Cepolidae (gastropods)
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Cepolidae Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group SigmurethraSuperfamily: Helicoidea Family: Cepolidae
Ihering, 1909[1]Genera See text
Cepolidae 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).
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Distribution
Distribution of Cepolidae include Nearctic and Caribbean.[2]
Anatomy
This family is defined by the absence of the diverticulum. Snails in this family have one dart apparatus, and one mucus gland on top of the dart sac. The sheath of the dart apparatus has two glands.[citation needed]
Taxonomy
This family is placed within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[3] In many textbooks and on many websites however this family is listed as the subfamily Cepolinae within the family Helminthoglyptidae.
The name Cepolidae Ihering, 1909 is a homonym for the family Cepolidae Rafinesque, 1815 (based on Cepola Linnaeus, 1766) a family of bandfishes in the superfamily Cepoloidea within the order Perciformes.
Genera
Genera within the family Cepolidae include:
- Bellacepolis[citation needed]
- Cepolis Montfort, 1810 - type genus of the family Cepolidae[3]
- Coryda[citation needed]
- Cysticopsis[citation needed]
- Dialeuca[citation needed]
- Euclastaria[citation needed]
- Eurycampta[citation needed]
- Guladentia[citation needed]
- Hemitrochus[citation needed]
- Jeanneretia[citation needed]
- Levicepolis[citation needed]
- Plagioptycha[citation needed]
- Setipellis[citation needed]
References
- ^ Ihering H. von (1909). Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 59: 429.
- ^ Hausdorf B. (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.
- ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst.
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