Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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| Parmacella valenciennii | |
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| Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Parmacelloidea |
| Family: | Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856 (1855) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)[2] | |
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.
Distribution
editThe distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western Palearctic,[3] and ranges from the Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan.[1]
Genera
editGenera within family Parmacellidae include:
- Candaharia Godwin-Austen, 1888[4]
- subgenus Levanderiella Schileyko, 2007[5]
- Cryptella Webb & Berthelot, 1833[6]
- Parmacella Cuvier, 1804[6] - type genus
Cladogram
editThe following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade:[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Family summary for Parmacellidae". AnimalBase, last modified 21 February 2009, accessed 1 September 2010.
- ^ Schileyko A. A. (2003). "On the conservation of the name Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856". Ruthenica 13(2): 167-168. PDF.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "CATALOGUE OF THE CONTINENTAL MOLLUSKS OF RUSSIA AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES". Version 2.3.
- ^ Schileyko A. A. (2007). "Levanderiella, a new name for Levanderia Likharev et Wiktor, 1980 (Pulmonata, Parmacellidae)". Ruthenica 17(1-2): 84. PDF.
- ^ a b Parmacellidae. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.
Further reading
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Parmacellidae.
- Schileyko A. A. (2003). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. 10. Ariophantidae, Ostracolethaidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2. 1309–1466.