Cerastidae

Cerastidae
Cerastidae
Drawing of apertural and abapertural view of the shell of Rhachistia rhodotaenia.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily: Enoidea
Family: Cerastidae
Wenz, 1923[1]
Genera

See text
Synonyms
  • Pachnodidae Steenberg, 1925
  • Cerastuinae Wenz, 1930

Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.

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Taxonomy

The Cerastidae family is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

The family Cerastidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera in the family Cerastidae include:

  • Cerastus Martens, 1860 - type genus of the family Cerastidae
  • Pachnodus Martens, 1860
  • Rhachistia Connolly, 1922
  • Rhachis Pfeiffer, 1856

Description

Anatomically speaking, there is no flagellum in the reproductive system of snails in the family Cerastidae, and this is what distinguishes this family from its sister group the family Enidae.[2]

References

  1. ^ Wenz W. (2 August 1923) "Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria" Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia. 3387 pp., published in parts: Part IV, Pars 21: 1069-1420. Cerastidae is on the page 1072.
  2. ^ Mordan P. B. (1992) "The morphology and phylogeny of the Cerastuinae (Pulmonata: Pupilloidea)". Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) 58, 1–20.

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