Parmacellidae
Temporal range: ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent[1]
Parmacella valenciennii
Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Parmacelloidea
Family: Parmacellidae
P. Fischer, 1856 (1855)
Genera

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Synonyms

Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)[2]

Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

Distribution

The distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western Palearctic,[3] and ranges from the Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan.[1]

Genera

Genera within family Parmacellidae include:

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade:[3]

 limacoid clade 

References

  1. ^ a b "Family summary for Parmacellidae". AnimalBase, last modified 21 February 2009, accessed 1 September 2010.
  2. ^ Schileyko A. A. (2003). "On the conservation of the name Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856". Ruthenica 13(2): 167-168. PDF.
  3. ^ a b Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  4. ^ Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "CATALOGUE OF THE CONTINENTAL MOLLUSKS OF RUSSIA AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES". Version 2.3.
  5. ^ Schileyko A. A. (2007). "Levanderiella, a new name for Levanderia Likharev et Wiktor, 1980 (Pulmonata, Parmacellidae)". Ruthenica 17(1-2): 84. PDF.
  6. ^ a b Parmacellidae. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.

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