Biology:Dorcasiidae

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Short description: Family of gastropods

Dorcasiidae
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Dorcasia alexandri Gray, 1838
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Dorcasiidae

Connolly, 1915[1]

Dorcasiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

The family Dorcasiidae has no subfamilies.[2]

Distribution

Found in southern Africa.[3]

Genera

Genera within the family Dorcasiidae include:

  • Dorcasia Gray, 1838 - the type genus of the family Dorcasiidae[2]
  • Trigonephrus Pilsbry, 1905[3]
  • Tulbaghinia Melvill & Ponsonby, 1898

References

  1. Connolly M. (1915). "Notes on South African Mollusca". Annals of the South African Museum 13: 99-178. plates 2-4. Page 120, 134.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 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. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gess F. W. & Gess S. K. (1999). "The use by wasps, bees and spiders of shells of Trigonephrus Pilsb. (Mollusca: Gasteropoda: Dorcasiidae) in desertic winter-rainfall areas in southern Africa". Journal of Arid Environments 43(2): 143-153. doi:10.1006/jare.1999.0549.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1243750 entry