Aillyidae
| Aillyidae | |
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| (unranked): | cladeHeterobranchia
cladeEuthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Aillyoidea H. B. Baker,1955[1]
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| Family: | Aillyidae H. B. Baker,1955[1]
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Aillyidaeis afamilyof air-breathingland snails,terrestrialpulmonategastropodmollusksin the informal groupSigmurethra.[2]
Aillyidae is the only family in the superfamilyAillyoidea.[2]
This family and the genus is named in honor of SwedishmalacologistAdolf d'Ailly(1855-1927).[citation needed]
Taxonomy
[edit]The family Aillyidae is classified within the informal groupSigmurethra,itself belonging to thecladeStylommatophorawithin the cladeEupulmonata(according totaxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]This family has no subfamilies.[2]
Prestonellidaehas been tentatively placed as a synonym of Aillyidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[2]Herbert & Mitchell (2009)[3]have moved Prestonellidae to the superfamilyOrthalicoidea.[3]
Genera
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abBaker H. B. (1955). "Heterurethrous and aulocopod".The Nautilus68(4):109-112.
- ^abcdefBouchet, Philippe;Rocroi, Jean-Pierre;Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard;Ponder, Winston;Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families".Malacologia.47(1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397.ISBN3-925919-72-4.ISSN0076-2997.
- ^abcHerbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genusPrestonella:the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora) ".Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society96(1): 203-221.doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01109.x.
- ^abcOdhner N. H.(1927). "Aillya camerunensisn. gen., n. sp. An African bulimuloid snail. ".Arkiv för Zoologi19a(20): 1.
- ^Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 3: Partulidae, Aillyidae, Bulimulidae, Orthalicidae, Megaspiridae, Urocoptidae".Ruthenica(Suppl. 2): 272.
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