Biology:Littorinoidea

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Short description: Superfamily of gastropods

Littorinoidea
Apertural view of a shell and an operculum of the land snail Tudorella sulcata in the family Pomatiidae
Apertural view of a shell and an operculum of the land snail Tudorella sulcata in the family Pomatiidae
The land snail Tropidophora fimbriata
The land snail Tropidophora fimbriata
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Littorinoidea
Children, 1834[1]
Families

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Littorinoidea are a superfamily of both sea snails and land snails which have a gill and an operculum, terrestrial and marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.[2]

The terrestrial family within this group, the Pomatiidae, are sometimes called "land winkles"[3] because the group originated in the sea and the closely related family Littorinidae are known as "winkles".[4]

Taxonomy

These families and subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

  • Littorinidae Children, 1834 - the periwinkles
    • Subfamily Littorininae Children, 1834
    • Subfamily Lacuninae Gray, 1857
    • Subfamily Laevilitorininae Reid, 1989
  • Bohaispiridae Youluo, 1978
  • Pickworthiidae Iredale, 1917
    • Subfamily Pickworthiinae Iredale, 1917 (synonym: Reynellonidae Iredale, 1917)
    • Subfamily Pelycidiinae Ponder & Hall, 1983
    • Subfamily Sherborniinae Iredale, 1917
  • Pomatiidae Newton, 1891 (1828)
  • Annulariidae Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
    • Subfamily Annulariinae Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
    • Subfamily Rhytidopomatinae Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
    • Subfamily Tudorinae Watters, 2006
  • Purpurinidae Zittel, 1895
  • Skeneopsidae Iredale, 1915
  • Tripartellidae Gründel, 2001
  • Zerotulidae Warén & Hain, 1996

(Extinct taxa are indicated by a dagger, †.)

Families brought into synonymy
  • Bembiciidae: synonym of Lacuninae
  • Cyclostomatidae: synonym of Pomatiidae
  • Ericiidae: synonym of Pomatiidae
  • Faxiidae: synonym of Sherborniinae
  • Lacunidae: synonym of Littorinidae
  • Melarhaphidae: synonym of Littorininae
  • Reynellonidae: synonym of Pickworthiinae
  • Risellidae: synonym of Lacuninae

References

  1. Children, J. G. (1834). Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. ed. 28: 110.
  2. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2). 
  3. Journal of Molluscan Studies, GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE LAND WINKLE POMATIAS ELEGANS (MÜLLER) (CAENOGASTROPODA: POMATIASIDAE) Volume 67, Issue 2, pp 145–152 (http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/2/145.abstract) Accessed 2014-9-2
  4. (in en) The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 1988. pp. 135. ISBN 978-0-7735-0654-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=xw32w-KNt-8C&pg=PA1998. 

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