Urocoptidae
Apertural view of a shell of Holospira elizabethae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Urocoptoidea
Family: Urocoptidae
Pilsbry, 1898[1] (1868)

Urocoptidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.[2]

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

The family Urocoptidae was classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[3]

The family Urocoptidae consists of 7 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

2008 taxonomy

Uit de Weerd (2008)[2] moved the Urocoptidae to the newly established superfamily Urocoptoidea based on molecular phylogeny research.[2]

The following cladogram based on Bayesian analysis of sequences of 28S ribosomal RNA shows the phylogenic relations within the Urocoptoidea.[2] There are up to 2008 genetically analyzed species of Urocoptidae and one species of Cerionidae marked in khaki color in the cladogram.[2]

Urocoptoidea

Macroceramus microdon

Microceramus pontificus

Torrecoptis holguinensis

Autocoptis menkeana

Simplicervix inornata

Brachypodella dominicensis gabbi

Dissotropis sp. nov. [1]

Anisospira lebmanni

Archegocoptis crenata

Eucalodium sp.

Cerionidae

Cerion striatellum

Coelostemma sp. nov. [2]

Hendersoniella lux lux

Holospira fortisculpta

Epirobia polygyra

2012 taxonomy

Fred G. Thompson established the family Epirobiidae in 2012 for five genera of snails (Epirobia, Propilsbrya, Pectinistemma, Gyrocion, Prionoloplax), that were previously placed within Urocoptidae.[4] Data from molecular phylogeny research as well as morphology supports monophyly of Holospiridae Pilsbry, 1946 and the Eucalodiidae Crosse & Fischer, 1868.[4]

Genera

Genera in the family Urocoptidae include:

Urocoptinae

Apominae

Brachypodellinae

Eucalodiinae

Holospirinae

Microceraminae

Tetrentodontinae

Other genera include:[6]

References

  1. ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1898). The Nautilus 11(9): 107.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Uit De Weerd, D. R. (2008). "Delimitation and phylogenetics of the diverse land-snail family Urocoptidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) based on 28S rRNA sequence data: A reunion with Cerion". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 74 (4): 317–29. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyn023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h 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.
  4. ^ a b Thompson F. G. (2012). "The land snail genus Epirobia and allied genera in México and Central America, with the description of a new family, the Epirobiidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Urocoptoidea)". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51: 167-215. PDF.
  5. ^ Roth, B. (2000). "Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) land snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) from Washington and California". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 66 (3): 373–381. doi:10.1093/mollus/66.3.373.
  6. ^ "Urocoptidae - MICROCERAMIDAE". Archived from the original on 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2024-01-22.

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