Biology:Acroloxidae
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Acroloxidae, commonly known as river limpets, are a taxonomic family of very small, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod limpet-like mollusks with a simple flattened conical shell in the clade Hygrophila.
Acroloxidae is the only family within the superfamily Acroloxoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution
Worldwide.[1]
Anatomy
Pulmones are reduced. Sexual cavity and accessory gills are on the right side.[1]
Genera
Genera within the family Acroloxidae include:
- Acroloxus Beck, 1838[2] - type genus[3]
- Baicalancylus Starobogatov, 1967[3]
- Frolikhiancylus Sitnikova & Starobogatov, 1993
- Gerstfeldtiancylus Starobogatov, 1989[3][4]
- Pseudancylastrum Lindholm, 1909[3][5]
- Synonyms
- Costovelletia Starobogatov, 1991: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (a junior synonym)
- Dinarancylus Starobogatov, 1991: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (a junior synonym)
- Velletia J. E. Gray, 1840: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (junior objective synonym)
References
This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Family summary for Acroloxidae". AnimalBase, last change 14-08-2006, accessed 3 August 2010
- ↑ Beck H. (1837). Index molluscorum præsentis ævi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. pp. 1-100 [1837], 101-124 [1838]. Hafniae.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kantor, Yu I.; Vinarski, M. V.; Schileyko, A. A.; Sysoev, A. V. (December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories". Ruthenica. http://www.ruthenica.com/documents/Continental_Russian_molluscs_ver2-3.pdf.
- ↑ Starobogatov (1989). In: Linevich (Ed.) Fauna Baikala. Chast' 4 - Chervi, mollyuski, chlenistonogie: sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Fauna of Lake Baikal. Part 4 - worms, molluscs and arthropods: collected scientific papers. Nauka, Novosibirsk: 58.
- ↑ Lindholm (1909). Wiss. Ergeb. Exped. Baikal 4: 26.
- Thiele, J. (1929–1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q1936735 entry
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