Elonidae is a
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
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 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 ...
s
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 ...
.
This family is 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).
Subfamilies and genera
The family Elonidae consists of two subfamilies (according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
*
Eloninae Gittenberger, 1977
*
Klikiinae H. Nordsieck, 1986
Genera
Genera in the family Elonidae include:
* † ''
Cyrtochilus''
F. Sandberger, 1875
* † ''
Eurystrophe''
Gude, 1911
* †''
Joossia''
Pfeffer, 1930
* † ''
Lychnopsis''
Vidal, 1917
* † ''
Megalocochlea''
Wenz, 1919
* † ''
Papillotopsis''
H. Binder, 2017
* † ''
Puisseguria''
Schlickum, 1975
;Eloninae
* The
type genus
In biological taxonomy, the type genus (''genus typica'') is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
Zoological nomenclature
According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearin ...
is ''
Elona
''Elona quimperiana'', common name the escargot de Quimper ("Quimper snail"), is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae.
''Elona'' is a monotypic genus, i. ...
'' H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. It is a monotypic genus, with only one species: ''
Elona quimperiana''
* † ''
Galactochiloides''
Wenz, 1919
* ''
Norelona''
Nordsieck, 1986
** ''
Norelona pyrenaica''
(Draparnaud, 1805)
* † ''
Tropidomphalus''
Pilsbry, 1895
;† Klikiinae
* † ''
Apula''
C. R. Boettger, 1909
* † ''
Klikia''
Pilsbry, 1895[ Tryon G. W. (1894) '' Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata'']
Volume 9
Helicidae - Volume VII. Continued by H. A. Pilsbry
page 289
* † ''
Pseudochloritis''
C. R. Boettger, 1909
;Synonyms:
* ''Sterna''
Albers, 1850: synonym of ''Elona''
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 ((Invalid: junior homonym of ''Sterna''
Linnaeus, 1758 ves)
* † ''Steklovia''
Schlickum & Strauch, 1972: synonym of † ''Apula''
C. R. Boettger, 1909 † (junior subjective synonym)
References
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