Cerastidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | Pupilloidei |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Cerastidae Wenz, 1923[1] |
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Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.[2]
Genera
[edit]- Achatinelloides Nevill, 1878[3]
- Altenaia Zilch, 1972
- Amimopina Solem, 1964[4]
- Archeorachis Schileyko, 1998
- Cerastus E. von Martens, 1860
- Conulinus E. von Martens, 1895
- Darwininitium Budha & Mordan, 2012
- Euryptyxis P. Fischer, 1883
- Gittenedouardia Bank & Menkhorst, 2008[5]
- Hoqia Neubert, 2005[6]
- Limicena Connolly, 1925[7]
- Microscintilla Neubert, 2002[8]
- Nesiocerastus Van Mol & Coppois, 1980
- Nesobia Ancey, 1887
- Pachnodus E. von Martens, 1860
- Paracerastus Thiele, 1934
- Passamaella Clessin, 1878[9]
- Pleurorhachis Connolly, 1938
- Polychordia Connolly, 1941
- Rachis Albers, 1850[10]
- Rhachidina Thiele, 1911[11]
- Rhachistia Connolly, 1925[7]
- Soqena Neubert, 2005[6]
- Zebrinops Thiele, 1931
Description
[edit]Anatomically speaking, there is no flagellum in the reproductive system of snails in the family Cerastidae, and this is what distinguishes this family from its sister group the family Enidae.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ Wenz, W. (1923). Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria. Berlin: W. Junk.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738097 on 2020-12-31
- ^ Nevill, G. (1878). Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part I. Gastropoda. Pulmonata and Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia. Calcutta: Trustees of the Indian Museum.
- ^ Solem, A. (1964). Aminopina, an Australian enid land snail. The Veliger, 6(3), 115–120.
- ^ Bank, R. A. & Menkhorst, H. P. (2008). Notes on the nomenclature of some land- and freshwater molluscs of the Seychelles, with consequences for taxa from Africa, Madagascar, India, the Philippines, Jamaica, and Europe. Basteria, 72, 93–110.
- ^ a b Neubert, E. (2005). The continental malacofauna of Arabia and adjacent areas. IV. Revision of the family Cerastidae in the Soqotran Archipelago. I. The genus Passamaella Pfeiffer, 1877, with a description of a new genus and species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Cerastidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 134(1), 1–21.
- ^ a b Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12, 105–220.
- ^ Neubert, E. (2002). The continental malacofauna of Arabia and adjacent areas. I. Terrestrial molluscs of Samha and Darsa Islands (al-Ikhwan), Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. Fauna of Arabia, 19, 245–259.
- ^ Clessin, S. (1878). Aus meiner Novitäten-Mappe. Malakozoologische Blätter, 25, 122–129.
- ^ Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.
- ^ Thiele, J. (1911). Mollusken der Deutschen Zentralafrika-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907–1908 Unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg, 3, 175–214.
- ^ Mordan, P. B. (1992). The morphology and phylogeny of the Cerastuinae (Pulmonata: Pupilloidea). Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History, Zoology, 58, 1–20.
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