Cepolidae is a
family
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of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the superfamily
Helicoidea
Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order (taxonomy), order Stylommatophora.
Taxonomy
2017 taxonomy and l ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution
Distribution of Cepolidae include
Nearctic
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America ...
and
Caribbean
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.
[Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". '']Journal of Biogeography
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'' 27(2): 379-390.
JSTOR
Anatomy
This family is defined by the absence of the
diverticulum
In medicine or biology, a diverticulum is an outpouching of a hollow (or a fluid-filled) structure in the body. Depending upon which layers of the structure are involved, diverticula are described as being either true or false.
In medicine, t ...
. Snails in this family have one
dart apparatus, and one mucous gland on top of the dart sac. The sheath of the dart apparatus has two glands.
Taxonomy
This family is placed within the
clade
In biology, a clade (), also known as a Monophyly, monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades are the fundamental unit of cladistics, a modern approach t ...
Stylommatophora
Stylommatophora is an orderPhilippe Bouchet, Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hausdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, Alexander Nützel, Pavel Parkhaev, Michael Schrödl and Ellen E. Strong. 2017. Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of ...
within the clade
Eupulmonata
Eupulmonata is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing gastropod molluscs. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are intertidal or inhabit coastal saltmarshes and mangroves.
Possible synapomorphy of the group are gl ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
In many textbooks and on many websites however this family is listed as the subfamily Cepolinae within the family
Helminthoglyptidae
The Helminthoglyptinae are a subfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the family Xanthonychidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Helminthoglyptinae Pilsbry, 1939. Accessed through: World Reg ...
.
The name Cepolidae
Ihering, 1909 is a
homonym
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for the family
Cepolidae Rafinesque, 1815 (based on ''Cepola''
Linnaeus, 1766) a family of bandfishes in the superfamily
Cepoloidea
The bandfishes, family Cepolidae, are 23 species of marine ray-finned fishes, They are native to the East Atlantic and Indo-Pacific wherethey dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabeds and eat zooplankton.
Taxonomy
The bandfishes belong to the famil ...
within the order
Perciformes
Perciformes (), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. ''Perciformes'' means " perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters ( Percidae), and als ...
. The name of the gastropod family needs be submitted to the
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
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Orga ...
to resolve the
homonymy
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.
Genera
Genera within the family Cepolidae include:
* ''
Bellacepolis
''Bellacepolis'' is a genus of gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails a ...
'' Baker, 1943
* ''
Cepolis
''Cepolis'' is a genus of gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and s ...
'' Montfort, 1810 - type genus of the family Cepolidae
* ''
Coryda
''Coryda'' is a genus of gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slu ...
'' Albers, 1850
* ''
Cysticopsis'' Mörch, 1852
* ''
Dialeuca
''Dialeuca'' is a genus of gastropods belonging to the family Cepolidae.
The species of this genus are found in Central America.
Species:
* '' Dialeuca blandiana'' (C. B. Adams, 1850)
* ''Dialeuca conspersula
''Dialeuca'' is a genus of gast ...
'' Albers, 1850
* ''
Euclastaria'' Pilsbry, 1926
* ''
Eurycampta'' Von Martens, 1860
* ''
Guladentia'' Clench y Aguayo, 1951
* ''
Hemitrochus'' Swainson, 1840
* ''
Jeanneretia'' L. Pfeiffer, 1877
* ''
Levicepolis'' Baker, 1943
* ''
Plagioptycha'' L. Pfeiffer, 1855
* ''
Setipellis'' Pilsbry, 1926
* ''
Polymita '' Beck, 1837
References
Taxa named by Hermann von Ihering
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