Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.

Amnicolidae
Drawing of the shell of Amnicola dalli with the operculum next to it
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Amnicolidae
Tryon, 1863
Diversity[1]
About 200 freshwater species

This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.

Subfamilies edit

The family Amnicolidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):[2]

  • Subfamily Amnicolinae Tryon, 1863, synonymised with:
    • Tribe Erhaiini Davis & Kuo, 1985[3]
    • Subfamily Lyogyrinae Pilsbry, 1916
    • Subfamily Parabythinellinae Radoman, 1976
    • Tribe Pseudobythinellini Davis & Chen, 1992
  • Subfamily Baicaliinae P. Fisher, 1885, synonymised with:
    • Subfamily Liobaicaliinae B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1913
    • Subfamily Turribaicaliinae B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917

Genera edit

  • Subfamily Amnicolinae Tryon, 1863
    • Akiyoshia Kuroda & Habe, 1954[4], synonymised with:
      • Akiyoshia (Saganoa) Kuroda, Habe & Tamu, 1958
    • Amnicola Gould & Haldeman, 1840, synonymised with:
      • Amnicola (Amnicola) Gould & Haldeman, 1840
      • Hydrobia (Amnicola) Gould & Haldeman, 1840
    • Chencuia Davis, 1997
    • Colligyrus Hershler, 1999
    • Dasyscias F. G. Thompson & Hershler, 1991
    • Erhaia Davis & Kuo, 1985,[3] synonymised with:
      • Pseudobythinella Liu & Zhang, 1979
    • Kolhymamnicola Starobogatov & Budnikova, 1976
    • Lyogyrus Gill, 1863
    • Marstoniopsis van Regteren Altena, 1936
    • Moria Kuroda & Habe, 1958
    • Rachipteron F.G. Thompson, 1964[5]
  • Subfamily Baicaliinae P. Fisher, 1885
    • Baicalia Martens, 1876, synonymised with:
      • Baicalia (Baicalia) Martens, 1876
      • Baicalia (Trachybaicalia) Martens, 1876
      • Baikalia Dall, 1877
      • Baikalia (Trachybaikalia) G. Nevill, 1885
      • Limnorea W. Dybowski, 1875
      • Limnorea (Ligea) W. Dybowski, 1875
      • Trachybaikalia G. Nevill, 1885
      • Turribaicalia B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917
    • Dybowskia Dall, 1877
    • Godlewskia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1879
    • Korotnewia Kozhov, 1936
    • Liobaicalia Martens, 1876, synonymised with:
      • Baicalia (Liobaicalia) Martens, 1876
      • Hydrobia (Liobaikalia) Dall, 1877
      • Limnorea (Leucosia) W. Dybowski, 1875
    • Maackia Clessin, 1880,[6] synoynmised with:
      • Baicalia (Maackia) Clessin, 1880
      • Maackia (Eubaicalia) Lindholm, 1924
      • Maackia (Maackia) Clessin, 1880
    • Parabaikalia Lindholm, 1909
    • Pseudobaikalia Lindholm, 1909, synonymised with:
      • Pseudobaicalia B. Dybowski, 1911
      • Pseudobaikalia (Microbaicalia) Kozhov, 1936
      • Pseudobaikalia (Pseudobaikalia) Lindholm, 1909
    • Pyrgobaicalia Starobogatov, 1972
    • Teratobaikalia Lindholm, 1909, synonymised with:
      • Teratobaikalia (Baikaliella) Lindholm, 1909
      • Teratobaikalia (Teratobaikalia) Lindholm, 1909
      • Teratobaikalia (Trichiobaikalia) Lindholm, 1909

References edit

  1. ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
  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.
  3. ^ a b Davis G. M., Kuo Y.-H. Hoagland K. E., Chen P.-L., Yang H.-M. & Chen D.-J. (1985). Erhaia, a new genus and new species of Pomatiopsidae from China (Gastropoda: Rissoacea). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 137, 48–78.
  4. ^ Davis G. M. & Rao S. (1997). "Discovery of Erhaia (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) in northern India with description of a new genus of Erhaiini from China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48: 273-299. JSTOR.
  5. ^ Thompson F. G. (1964). A new aquatic snail of the family Amnicolidae from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical, 12(1), 97–105.
  6. ^ Fazalova V., Nevado B., Peretolchina T., Petunina J. & Sherbakov D. (2010). "When environmental changes do not cause geographic separation of fauna: differential responses of Baikalian invertebrates". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 320. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-320.