Ancylini

Ancylini

Ancylini

Tribe of gastropods

Ancylini is a tribe of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. This tribe used to be treated as a family; the current taxonomic placement within Planorbidae is according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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Anatomy

These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch" which can serve perfectly well as a gill in situations where the limpet is unable to reach the surface for air, as is often the case.

Genera

Genera in the tribe Ancylini include:[2][3][4][5]

References

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    Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse de la Nature ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palermo, 223 pp.
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    "Ancylidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System., accessed 1 January 2008.
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    2000. Ancylidae. (on-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed December 31, 2008 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Ancylidae.doc
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    "Ancylidae". UniProt. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
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    dos Santos, S. B. (2003). "Estado atual do conhecimento dos ancilídeos na América do Sul (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Basommatophora)" (PDF). Revista de Biología Tropical (in Portuguese). 51 (3): 191–223. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  6. [6]
    Gutiérrez Gregoric, D. E. (2014). "Sineancylus, Nom. Nov.: A Replacement Name for Anancylus Gutiérrez Gregoric, 2012 (Gastropoda, Ancylidae)". Malacologia. 57 (1): 243. doi:10.4002/040.057.0102. hdl:11336/79720.
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    Bouchet, P. (2014). "Sineancylus Gutiérrez Gregoric, 2014". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
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