Cerionidae

Cerionidae
Cerionidae
Cerion chrysalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Urocoptoidea
Family: Cerionidae
Pilsbry, 1901[1]
Genera

See text.

Cerionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.[2]

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2008 taxonomy

The Cerionidae family has been classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[3]

The family Cerionidae has no subfamilies.[3]

2008 taxonomy

Uit de Weerd (2008)[2] has moved the Cerionidae to newly established superfamily Urocoptoidea based on molecular phylogeny research.[2]

Genera

Genera within the Cerionidae include:

  • Cerion Röding, 1798 - the type genus of the family Cerionidae[3]

References

  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1901). Manual of Conchology (2)14(55): 174.
  2. ^ a b c Uit de Weerd D. R. (2008). "Delimitation and phylogenetics of the highly diverse land snail family Urocoptidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) based on 28S rRNA sequence data: A reunion with Cerion". Journal of Molluscan Studies 74: 317-329. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyn023.
  3. ^ a b c 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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