Amphiboloidea
| Amphiboloidea | |
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| A drawing of the shell and operculum of Amphibola crenata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea J. E. Gray, 1840 |
| Families[1] | |
| Diversity[2] | |
| 15 species | |
Amphiboloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails.
Distribution
[edit]Amphibolids are found in Indo-Pacific intertidal mangrove, saltmarsh and estuarine mudflat habitats.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]2005 taxonomy
[edit]According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it is a superfamily in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.[3]
This superfamily has contained only one family, the Amphibolidae.[3]
2007 taxonomy
[edit]Golding et al. (2007)[2] have established new families:
- Maningrididae Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007[2] - with the only species Maningrida arnhemensis[2]
- Phallomedusidae Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007[2]
2010 taxonomy
[edit]Basommatophora (Siphonarioidea and Amphiboloidea and Hygrophila) have been found polyphyletic and so Jörger et al. (2010)[4] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.
References
[edit]- ↑ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2026). "Amphiboloidea J. E. Gray, 1840". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)". Zootaxa 1476: 1-50. abstract.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-323.
Further reading
[edit]- Golding R. E., Byrne M., Ponder W. F. (2008) "Novel copulatory structures and reproductive functions in Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia, Pulmonata)". Invertebrate Biology 127(2): 168–180 doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00120.x