Hygromiidae
A live individual of Trochulus hispidus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Hygromiidae
Tryon, 1866
Type genus
Hygromia
Risso, 1826
Genera

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Synonyms

Helicellidae Ihering, 1909

Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.[1]

Anatomy

Some snails in genera within this family create and use love darts as part of their courtship and mating behavior.

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[2]

Taxonomy

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

Genera

Genera with the family Hygromiidae include:

The type genus of this family is Hygromia Risso, 1826.

Not belonging to a subfamily
subfamily Hygromiinae Tryon, 1866
subfamily Leptaxinae C.R. Boettger, 1909
subfamily Metafruticicolinae Schileyko, 1972
subfamily Trochulininae Lindholm, 1927

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Helicellidae Ihering, 1909
  2. ^ 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, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  3. ^ Neiber, Marco T.; Razkin, Oihana; Hausdorf, Bernhard (2017). "Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the land snail family Hygromiidae (Gastropoda: Helicoidea)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 111: 169–184. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.04.002. PMID 28390908.
  4. ^ Schileyko A. A. & Horsák M. (2007). "A new genus and two new species of Hygromiidae (Pulmonata) from southern Siberia". Ruthenica 17(1-2): 69-72. abstract.
  5. ^ Cucherat X. & Demuynck S. (2006). "Catalogue annoté des Gastéropodes terrestres (Mollusca, Gastropoda) de la région Nord - Pas-de-Calais". MalaCo, Bulletin de la Malacologie Continentale Française, (2) Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine: page 81. http://www.journal-malaco.fr/page-5.html Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Caucasian Land Snails" Archived 2014-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. accessed May 2, 2014.

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