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Urocyclidae

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Family of gastropods

Urocyclidae
Trochonanina mozambicensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Urocyclidae
Simroth, 1889

Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.

Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.

Distribution

The Urocyclidae are distributed in the Afrotropical realm, including Madagascar, the Comores and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea.

Taxonomy

The family Urocyclidae consists of 3 subfamilies:

  • subfamily Rhysotininae Schileyko, 2002
  • subfamily Sheldoniinae Connolly, 1925 (1912) - synonyms: Peltatinae Godwin-Austen, 1912; Trochonanininae Connolly, 1912; Trochozonitinae Iredale, 1914; Ledoulxiinae Pilsbry, 1919; Gymnarionidae Von Mol, 1970; Rhysotinidae Schileyko, 2002; Zonitarionini Schileyko, 2002; Acantharionini Schileyko, 2002
  • subfamily Urocyclinae Simroth, 1889

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the family Urocyclidae:

unsorted
Subfamily Rhysotininae
Subfamily Sheldoniinae
Subfamily Urocyclinae

Tribe Dendrolimacini

  • Dendrolimax Heynemann, 1868 - the type genus of the tribe Dendrolimacini

Tribe Leptichnini

  • Leptichnus Simroth, 1896 - the type genus of the tribe Leptichnini

Tribe Upembellini

tribe Urocyclini

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family to other families in the limacoid clade:

 limacoid clade 
 Staffordioidea 

Staffordiidae

 Dyakioidea 

Dyakiidae

 Gastrodontoidea 

Pristilomatidae

Chronidae

Euconulidae

Trochomorphidae

Gastrodontidae

Oxychilidae

 Parmacelloidea 

Trigonochlamydidae

Parmacellidae

Milacidae

 Zonitoidea 

Zonitidae

 Helicarionoidea 

Helicarionidae

Ariophantidae

Urocyclidae

 Limacoidea 

Vitrinidae

Boettgerillidae

Limacidae

Agriolimacidae

References

  1. Simroth H. (1899). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Nacktschnecken". Nova Acta, Kaiserlich Leopoldinish-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher (= Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum) 54(1): 1-91, plates 1-4. p. 62.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Urocyclidae Simroth, 1889". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 19 August 2024.
  3. ^ 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. Herbert, Dai; Kilburn, Dick (2004). Field guide to the land snails and slugs of eastern south Africa (1st ed.). Pietermaritzburg :Natal Museum: Natal Museum. ISBN 0-620-32415-5.
  5. Connolly (1925). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)15: 467.
  6. Godwin-Austen H. H. (1912). "A review of South-African Land-Mollusca belonging to the Family Zonitidae". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8)9: 122-139. Plate 1-7. p. 124.
  7. Connolly (1912). Annals of the South African Museum 11(3): 101.
  8. Iredale (1914). Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 11(2): 122.
  9. Pilsbry H. A. (1919). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 40: 245.
  10. ^ Van Mol J. J. (1970). "Révision des Urocyclidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Anatomie - systématique - zoogéographie". Annales Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Sciences Zoologiques 180: 1-231.
  11. ^ Van Goethem J. (1977). "Révision systématique des Urocyclinae (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Urocyclidae)". Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale , Annales, Sciences zoologiques 218: 355 pp., 4 plates.
  12. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  13. Herbert D. G. (2004). Sheldonia puzeyi. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  14. de Winter A. J. (1987). "Verrucarion demeryi, a new semi-slug from Sierra Leone (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Urocyclidae)". Basteria 51(4-6): 87-93. abstract.
  15. Simroth H. (1910). In: Voeltzkow Reise O.-Afr., Wiss. Ergebn. 2(5): 611.

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