Acavidae is a
taxonomic family
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of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
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* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily
Acavoidea
The Acavoidea are a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.
This taxonomy was based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.
Taxonomy
Familie ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Anatomy
In this family, the number of
haploid chromosome
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s lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).
[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, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
Genera
The family Acavidae has no subfamilies.
Genera in the family Acavidae include:
[http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acavidae cited 11 October 2008]
* ''
Acavus''
Montfort, 1810
* ''
Ampelita''
Beck, 1837
* ''
Embertoniphanta''
Groh & Poppe, 2002
* ''
Eurystyla''
Ancey, 1887
* ''
Helicophanta''
Férussac, 1821
* ''
Leucotaenius''
Martens, 1860
* ''
Oligospira''
Ancey, 1887
* † ''Pebasiconcha''
Wesselingh & Gittenberger, 1999 - with the only species † ''
Pebasiconcha immanis'' Wesselingh & Gittenberger, 1999
[Wesselingh F. P. (2006). "Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia". '']Scripta Geologica
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'' 133: 19-290. Figure 274
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* '' Stylodonta'' De Cristofori & Jan, 1832
;Genera brought into synonymy:
* ''Acavella'' Jousseaume, 1894: synonym of '' Oligospira'' Ancey, 1887
* ''Columplica'' W. Hartmann, 1843: synonym of '' Stylodonta'' De Cristofori & Jan, 1832
* ''Poecilostylus'' Pilsbry, 1890: synonym of '' Eurystyla'' Ancey, 1887
* ''Stylodon'' H. Beck, 1837: synonym of '' Stylodonta'' De Cristofori & Jan, 1832
References
External links
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Gastropod families
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