Dorcasiidae
| Dorcasiidae | |
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| Dorcasia alexandriGray, 1838 | |
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| (unranked): | cladeHeterobranchia
cladeEuthyneura |
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| Family: | Dorcasiidae |
Dorcasiidaeis afamilyof air-breathingland snails,terrestrialpulmonategastropodmollusksin the superfamilyAcavoidea(according to thetaxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
The family Dorcasiidae has no subfamilies.[2]
Distribution
[edit]Found insouthern Africa.[3]
Genera
[edit]Genera within the family Dorcasiidae include:
- DorcasiaGray, 1838 - thetype genusof the family Dorcasiidae[2]
- TrigonephrusPilsbry, 1905[3]
- TulbaghiniaMelvill & Ponsonby, 1898
References
[edit]- ^Connolly M.(1915). "Notes on South African Mollusca".Annals of the South African Museum13:99-178. plates 2-4.Page 120,134.
- ^abcBouchet, 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.
- ^abGess F. W. & Gess S. K. (1999). "The use by wasps, bees and spiders of shells ofTrigonephrusPilsb. (Mollusca: Gasteropoda: Dorcasiidae) in desertic winter-rainfall areas in southern Africa ".Journal of Arid Environments43(2): 143-153.doi:10.1006/jare.1999.0549.
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