Xanthonychidae 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 ...
.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Xanthonychidae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994714 on 2021-02-25]
This family is within the superorder
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).
2017 taxonomy
The family Xanthonychidae consists of the following subfamilies:
*
Echinichinae F.G. Thompson & Naranjo-García, 2012
*
Epiphragmophorinae Hoffmann, 1928
*
Helminthoglyptinae Pilsbry, 1939
*
Humboldtianinae Pilsbry, 1939
*
Lysinoinae Hoffmann, 1928
** tribe Lysinoini
Hoffmann, 1928
** tribe Leptariontini
H. Nordsieck, 1987 - synonym: Tryonigentinae Schileyko, 1991
** tribe Metostracini
H. Nordsieck, 1987
* Metostracinae
H. Nordsieck, 1987: synonym of Metostracini
H. Nordsieck, 1987 (original rank)
*
Monadeniinae H. Nordsieck, 1987
*
Xanthonychinae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879
Trichodiscininae
H. Nordsieck, 1987: belongs to the family
Trichodiscinidae H. Nordsieck, 1987
Lysinoidae may be treated as a separate family with subfamilies Leptariontinae, Lysinoinae and Metostracinae.
[Bank, R. (2017). Lysinoidae Hoffmann, 1928. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994710 on 2017-08-29]
Genera
Genera in the family Xanthonychidae include:
;Subfamily Echinichinae
F.G. Thompson & Naranjo-García, 2012
* ''
Echinix''
F.G. Thompson & Naranjo-García, 2012
; Subfamily Epiphragmophorinae
Hoffmann, 1928
* ''
Angrandiella''
Ancey, 1886
* ''
Dinotropis''
Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1937
* ''
Doeringina''
Ihering, 1929
* ''
Epiphragmophora''
Doering, 1875
* ''
Karlschmidtia''
F. Haas, 1955
* ''
Minaselates''
Cuezzo & Pena, 2017
* ''
Pilsbrya''
Ancey, 1887
; subfamily
Helminthoglyptinae Pilsbry, 1939
; Subfamily Humboldtianinae
Pilsbry, 1939
* Tribe Bunnyini
H. Nordsieck, 1987
** ''
Bunnya''
H. B. Baker, 1942
* Tribe Humboldtianini
Pilsbry, 1939
** ''
Humboldtiana
''Humboldtiana'' is a genus of American air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Humboldtianinae.
Anatomy
Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
The scanni ...
''
Ihering, 1892
; Subfamily Lysinoinae
Hoffmann, 1928
* Tribe Leptariontini
H. Nordsieck, 1987
** ''
Leptarionta''
Crosse & P. Fischer, 1872
** ''
Semiconchula''
Naranjo-Garcia & Polaco, 2000
** ''
Tryonigens''
Pilsbry, 1927
* Tribe Lysinoini
Hoffmann, 1928
** ''
Lysinoe''
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
* Tribe Metostracini
H. Nordsieck, 1987
** ''
Cryptostrakon''
W.G. Binney, 1879
** ''
Metostracon''
Pilsbry, 1900
; Subfamily Monadeniinae
H. Nordsieck, 1987
* ''
Monadenia
''Monadenia'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails in the subfamily Monadeniinae.
These pulmonate, terrestrial molluscs belong to the gastropod class.
Snails in this genus create and use love darts as part of their mating behavior.
Specie ...
''
Pilsbry, 1895
; Subfamily Xanthonychinae
Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879
* ''
Xanthonyx''
Crosse & P. Fischer, 1867 - 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 ...
of the family Xanthonychidae
References
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017
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