Subulinidae

Subulinidae Temporal range: Lower Paleocene–Recent[1] PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
A live individual of the decollate snail, Rumina decollata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea
Family:	Subulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877[2]
Genera
See text

Subulinidae is a family of small tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea.

Distribution

Worldwide.^[1]

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).^[3]

Subfamilies

The family Subulinidae consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):^[4] (The following unreferenced unchecked genera are probably from Schileyko (1999))

• Subulininae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877
• Coeliaxinae Pilsbry, 1907^[5] - synonym: Cryptelasminae Germain, 1916; Pyrgininae Germain, 1916
• Glessulinae Godwin-Austen, 1920
• Opeatinae Thiele, 1931
• Petriolinae Schileyko, 1999
• Rishetiinae Schileyko, 1999
• Rumininae Wenz, 1923
• Stenogyrinae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877 - synonym: Obeliscinae Thiele, 1931

Genera

Genera in the family Subulinidae include:

Subulininae

• Abaconia Clench, 1938^{[citation needed]}
• Allopeas H. B. Baker, 1935^{[citation needed]}
• Beckianum Baker, 1961^[6]
• Curvella Chaper, 1885^{[citation needed]}
• Dysopeas Baker, 1927^{[citation needed]}
• Euonyma Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896^{[citation needed]}
• Hypolysia Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901^{[citation needed]}
• Lamellaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882^{[6][citation needed]}
• Leptopeas Baker, 1927^{[citation needed]}
• Leptinaria Beck, 1837^{[6][citation needed]}
• Luntia^{[disambiguation needed ]} Smith, 1898^{[citation needed]}
• Micropeas Connolly, 1923^{[citation needed]}
• Neoglessula Pilsbry, 1909^{[citation needed]}
• Paropeas Pilsbry, 1906^[7][8]
• Pelatrinia Pilsbry, 1907^{[citation needed]}
• Prosopeas Mörch, 1876^{[citation needed]}
• Pseudoglessula Boettger, 1892^{[citation needed]}
• Pseudopeas Putzeys, 1899^{[citation needed]}
• Striosubulina Thiele, 1933^{[citation needed]}
• Subulina Beck, 1837^[6] - type genus of the family Subulinidae^[4]
• Zootecus Westerlund, 1887^{[9][citation needed]}

Coeliaxinae

• Coeliaxis H. Adams & Angas, 1865 - type genus of the subfamily Coeliaxinae^[4]
• Cryptelasmus Pilsbry, 1907^[4][6]
• Ischnocion Pilsbry, 1907^{[citation needed]}
• Nannobeliscus Weyrauch, 1967^{[citation needed]}
• Neosubulina Smith, 1898^{[citation needed]}
• Pseudobalea Shuttleworth, 1854^{[citation needed]}
• Pyrgina Greef, 1882^[4]
• Thomea Girard, 1893^{[citation needed]}

Glessulinae

• Glessula Martens, 1860 - type genus of the subfamily Glessulinae^[4]

Opeatinae

• Eremopeas Pilsbry, 1906^{[citation needed]}
• Opeas Albers, 1850^[6] - type genus of the subfamily Opeatinae^[4]

Petriolinae

• Bocageia Girard, 1893^{[citation needed]}
• Ceras Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901^{[citation needed]}
• Chilonopsis Fischer de Waldheim, 1848^{[citation needed]}
• Cleostyla Dall, 1896^{[citation needed]}
• Comoropeas Pilsbry, 1906^{[citation needed]}
• Dictyoglessula Pilsbry, 1919^{[citation needed]}
• Homorus Albers, 1850^{[citation needed]}
• Ischnoglessula Pilsbry, 1919^{[citation needed]}
• Itiopiana Preston, 1910^{[citation needed]}
• Kempioconcha Preston, 1913^{[citation needed]}
• Liobocageia Pilsbry, 1919^{[citation needed]}
• Mabilliella Ancey, 1886^{[citation needed]}
• Notapalinus Connolly, 1923^{[citation needed]}
• Nothapalus von Martens, 1897^{[citation needed]}
• Oleata Ortiz de Zarate, 1959^{[citation needed]}
• Oreohomorus Pilsbry, 1919^[10]
• Petriola Dall, 1905 - type genus of the subfamily Petriolinae^[4]
• Subuliniscus Pilsbry, 1919^{[citation needed]}
• Subulona Martens, 1889^{[citation needed]}

Rishetiinae

• Bacillum^{[disambiguation needed ]} Theobald, 1840^{[citation needed]}
• Eutomopeas Pilsbry, 1946^{[citation needed]}
• Rishetia Godwin-Austen, 1920 - type genus of the subfamily Rishetiinae^[4]
• Tortaxis Pilsbry, 1906^{[citation needed]}

Rumininae

• Balfouria Crosse, 1884^{[citation needed]}
• Krapfiella Preston, 1911^{[citation needed]}
• Lubricella Haas, 1928^{[citation needed]}
• Namibiella Zilch, 1954^{[citation needed]}
• Obeliscella Jousseaume, 1899^{[citation needed]}
• Riebeckia von Martens, 1883^{[citation needed]}
• Rumina Risso, 1826^[11][6] - type genus of the subfamily Rumininae^[4]
• Xerocerastus Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1902^{[citation needed]}

Stenogyrinae

• Chryserpes Pilsbry, 1906^{[citation needed]}
• Cupulella Aguayo & Jaume, 1948^{[6][citation needed]}
• Dolicholestes Pilsbry, 1906^{[citation needed]}
• Lyobasis Pilsbry, 1903^{[citation needed]}
• Neobeliscus Pilsbry, 1896^{[citation needed]}
• Obeliscus Beck, 1837^[4][12][6]
• Ochroderma Ancey, 1885^{[citation needed]}
• Ochrodermatina Thiele, 1931^{[citation needed]}
• Ochrodermella Pilsbry, 1907^{[citation needed]}
• Plicaxis Sykes, 1903^{[citation needed]}
• Promoussonius Pilsbry, 1906^{[citation needed]}
• Protobeliscus Pilsbry, 1906^{[citation needed]}
• Pseudocolumna Wenz, 1920^{[citation needed]}
• Rectobelus Baker, 1927^{[citation needed]}
• Rhodea Adams, 1855^{[13][citation needed]}
• Stenogyra Shuttleworth, 1854 - type genus of the subfamily Stenogyrinae^[4]
• Synapterpes Pilsbry, 1896^{[citation needed]}
• Zoniferella Pilsbry, 1906^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Family summary for Subulinidae". AnimalBase, last modified 21-02-2006, accessed 15 March 2011.
2. ^ Fischer P. & Crosse (1877). Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale. Rechearches zoologiques (7)1(6): 592.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} 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. 
5. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1907). Manual of Conchology (2)18(72): 330.
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} "Mollusca". Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
7. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1906). In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1906) Manual of Conchology (2)18: 14.
8. ^ Naggs F. (1994). "The reproductive anatomy of Paropeas achatinaceum and a new concept of Paropeas (Pulmonata: Achatinoidea: Subulinidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 60(2): 175-191. doi:10.1093/mollus/60.2.175.
9. ^ "Genus summary for Zootecus". AnimalBase, accessed 11 october 2010.
10. ^ Wronski T. & Hausdorf B. (2009). "Oreohomorus apio new species from Uganda (Gastropoda: Subulinidae)". Journal of Conchology 40(1): 55-60. abstract.
11. ^ "Genus summary for Rumina". AnimalBase, accessed 11 october 2010.
12. ^ (Portuguese) Salgado N. C. & Coelho A. C. S. (2003). "Moluscos terrestres do Brasil (Gastrópodes operculados ou não, exclusive Veronicellidae, Milacidae e Limacidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical 51(Suppl. 3): 149-189. (with English abstract), PDF.
13. ^ "New paper on Rhodea". Ashbreure's posterous, published 1 April 2011, accessed 1 April 2011.

Further reading

• Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocyclidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae, Subulinidae, Glessulidae, Micractaeonidae, Ferrussaciidae". In: Ruthenica., Supplement, 2(4): 435-564, Moscow, ISSN 0136-0027.

External links

• Subulinidae at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website.