Chilina

Chlina
Shells of Chilina fulgurata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:	Chilinoidea
Family:	Chilinidae Dall, 1870
Genus:	Chilina Gray, 1828
Diversity
17[1] freshwater species

Chilina is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Chilinoidea.^[2]

Chilina is the only genus in the family Chilinidae.

Distribution

Map of distribution of Chilinidae.

Chilinidae occupies the temperate and cold zones of South America from the Tropic of Capricorn to Cape Horn^[3] and Falkland Islands.^[4] Distribution of Chilina include Argentina (17 species, 12 of them are endemic species),^[5][1] Uruguay (2 species),^[6] Brazil (about 4 species).^{[citation needed]}

Taxonomy

The Chilinidae family has been classified in the clade Hygrophila within the informal group Basommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).^[2] There are no subfamilies.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Chilina include:

• Chilina angusta (Philippi, 1860)^{[citation needed]}
• Chilina aurantia Marshall, 1924^[5]
• Chilina dombeiana (Bruguière, 1789)^[5]
• Chilina falklandica Cooper & Preston^[4]
• Chilina fluctuosa (Gray, 1828)^[7]
• Chilina fluminea (Maton, 1809)^[5]
• Chilina fulgurata Pilsbry, 1911^[5]
• Chilina gallardoi Castellanos & Gaillard, 1981^[5]
• Chilina gibbosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1841^[5]
• Chilina globosa Frauenfeld, 1881^{[citation needed]}
• Chilina guaraniana Castellanos & Miquel, 1980^[5]
• Chilina iguazuensis Gregoric & Rumi, 2008^[1]
• Chilina megastoma Hylton Scott, 1958^[5]
• Chilina mendozana Ströbel, 1874^[5]
• Chilina neuquenensis Marshall, 1933^[5]
• Chilina ovalis G. B. Sowerby^{[citation needed]}
• Chilina parchappii (d'Orbigny, 1835)^[5]
• Chilina parva Martens, 1868^{[citation needed]}
• Chilina patagonica Sowerby II, 1874^[5]
• Chilina perrieri Mabille, 1833^[5]
• Chilina portillensis Hidalgo, 1880^[5]
• Chilina rushii Pilsbry, 1911^[5]
• Chilina strebeli Pilsbry, 1911^[5]

Ecology

Within their area, the Chilinidae are abundant snails in all suitable stations, as Physidae are in the north America. They swarm in springs, small streams, lakes, and in some places the margins of rivers. They are most abundant southward, becoming rarer and local toward the northern borders of their range.^[3]

Chilina gibbosa and Chilina fluminea are medically important, because they transfer parasites causing dermatitis.^[5]

References

This article incorporates public domain text from the reference^[3]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Gregoric D. E. G. & Rumi A. (2008). "Chilina iguazuensis (Gastropoda: Chilinidae), New Species From Iguazú National Park, Argentina". Malacologia 50(1): 321-330. doi:10.4002/0076-2997-50.1-2.321.
2. ^ ^{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. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} Pilsbry H. A. (1911). Non-marine mollusca of Patagonia. Princeton, The University. page 532.
4. ^ ^{a b} Brown D. S. & Pullan N. B. (1987). "Notes on the shell, radula and habitat of Chilina (Basommatophora) from the Falkland Islands". Journal of Molluscan Studies 53(1): 105-108. doi:10.1093/mollus/53.1.105.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} Rumi A., Gregoric D. E. G., Núñez V. & Darrigran G. A. (2008). "Malacología Latinoamericana. Moluscos de agua dulce de Argentina". Revista de Biología Tropical 56(1): 77-111. HTM.
6. ^ (Spanish) Scarabino F. (2004). "Lista sistemática de los Gastropoda dulciacuícolas vivientes de Uruguay". Comunicaciones de la Sociedad Malacológica del Uruguay 8(84–85/86–87): 347-355. PDF.
7. ^ Brace R. C. (1983). "Observations on the Morphology and Behaviour of Chilina fluctuosa Gray (Chilinidae), with a Discussion on the Early Evolution of Pulmonate Gastropods". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 300(1101): 463-491. JSTOR.

Further reading

• Brace R. C. (1983). "Observations on the morphology and behaviour of Chilina fluctuosa Gray (Chilinidae), with a discussion on the early evolution of pulmonate gastropods". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, (ser. B) 300: 463–491.
• Castellanos Z. A. de & Gaillard M. C. (1981). "Mollusca Gasterópoda: Chilinidae". Fauna de Agua Dulce de la República Argentina. PROFADU (CONICET), Buenos Aires 15: 423–51.
• Haeckel W. (1911). "Beiträge zur Anatomie der Gattung Chilina". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Supplement 13: 89–136.
• Harry W. H. (1964). "The anatomy of Chilina fluctuosa Gray reexamined, with prolegomena on the phylogeny of the higher limnic Basommatophora (Gastropoda: Pulmonata)". Malacologia 1: 355–385.
• Hidalgo J. G. (1880). "Description d'une nouvelle espece de Chilina". Journal de Conchyliologie 20: 322–323.
• Hylton Scott M. I. (1958). "Nueva especie de Chilina del norte Argentino". Neotropica 4: 26–27.
• Ituarte C. F. (1997). "Chilina megastoma Hylton Scott, 1958 (Pulmonata: Basommatophora): a study on topotypic specimens. American Malacological Bulletin 14: 9–15.
• Martín P. R. (2003). "Allometric growth an inter-population morphological variation of the freshwater snail Chilina parchappii (Gastropoda: Chilinidae) in the Napostá Grande stream, southern Pampas, Argentina". Studies in Neotropical Fauna and Environment 38:71–78. doi:10.1076/snfe.38.1.71.14032
• Marshall W. B. (1924). "New species of mollusks of the genus Chilina". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66: 1–5.
• Marshall W. B. (1933). "New fresh-water gastropod mollusks of the genus Chilina of South America". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 82: 1–6.
• Miquel S. E. (1984). "Contribución al conocimiento biológico de gasterópodos pulmonados del área rioplatense, con especial referencia a Chilina fluminea. (Maton) Tesis doctoral. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de la Plata. 133 pp.
• Miquel S. E. (1987). "Estudio micro-anatómico del complejo peniano en especies del género Chilina Gray, 1828 (Gastropoda Basommatophora)". Notas del Museo de La Plata 21: Zoología 209. 131–142.
• Valdovinos C. & Stuardo J. (1995). "Morfología funcional de Chilina angusta (Philippi, 1860), y evolución de Chilinidae". Resumos, II Congreso Latino-Americano de Malacología, Porto Alegre, Brasil 43.

External links

• Chilina at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.
• Photos of shells of Chilinidae
• Photos of live Chilinidae