Amnicolidae
Drawing of the shell of Amnicola dalli with the operculum next to it
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Amnicolidae
Tryon, 1863
Diversity[1]
About 200 freshwater species

Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.

This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.

Subfamilies

The family Amnicolidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[2]

Genera

References

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  2. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
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  4. ^ Davis G. M. & Rao S. (1997). "Discovery of Erhaia (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) in northern India with description of a new genus of Erhaiini from China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48: 273-299. JSTOR.
  5. ^ Thompson F. G. (1964). A new aquatic snail of the family Amnicolidae from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical, 12(1), 97–105.
  6. ^ Fazalova V., Nevado B., Peretolchina T., Petunina J. & Sherbakov D. (2010). "When environmental changes do not cause geographic separation of fauna: differential responses of Baikalian invertebrates". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 320. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-320.
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