Cochlicopidae is a
taxonomic family
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of small, air-breathing,
land snails,
terrestrial
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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 or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
s in the superfamily Cochlicopoidea.
Anatomy
In this family, the number of
haploid chromosome
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s lies between 26 and 30 (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.
Taxonomy
The following two
subfamilies
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have been recognized in
the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
* subfamily Cochlicopinae
Pilsbry, 1900 (1879) - synonyms: Cionellidae
L. Pfeiffer, 1879; Zuidae
Bourguignat, 1884
* subfamily
Azecinae Watson, 1920 - synonym: Cryptazecinae
Schileyko, 1999
Genera
The family Cochlicopidae includes the following genera:
subfamily Cochlicopinae
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Cochlicopa
''Cochlicopa'', whose species are known as pillar snails, is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cochlicopa A. Férussac, 1821. ...
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Férussac, 1821 - synonym: ''Cionella''
Jeffreys, 1830
subfamily Azecinae
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Azeca
''Azeca'' is a European genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Cochlicopidae.
Species
The only known species in the genus ''Azeca'' is:
* '' Azeca goodalli'' (A. Férrusac, 1821) - the ...
''
Fleming, 1828
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Cryptazeca
''Cryptazeca'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Azecidae.
Distribution
The distribution of ''Cryptazeca'' species includes southwestern France, northeastern Spain (from the western Py ...
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Folin & Bérillon, 1877
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Hypnophila
''Hypnophila'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Azecidae
Azecidae is a family of small and very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfa ...
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Bourguignat, 1858"''Hypnophila'' Bourguignat 1858"
Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 September 2010.
References
External links
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