Elonidae

Elonidae

Elonidae

Family of gastropods

Quick Facts Scientific classification ...

Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

The family Elonidae consists of two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

  • Eloninae Gittenberger, 1977
  • Klikiinae H. Nordsieck, 1986[2]

Genera

Genera in the family Elonidae include:

  • † Cyrtochilus F. Sandberger, 1875
  • † Eurystrophe Gude, 1911
  • †Joossia Pfeffer, 1930
  • † Lychnopsis Vidal, 1917
  • † Megalocochlea Wenz, 1919
  • † Papillotopsis H. Binder, 2017
  • † Puisseguria Schlickum, 1975
Eloninae
Klikiinae
  • † Apula C. R. Boettger, 1909
  • † Klikia Pilsbry, 1895[3]
  • † Pseudochloritis C. R. Boettger, 1909
Synonyms
  • Sterna Albers, 1850: synonym of Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 ((Invalid: junior homonym of Sterna Linnaeus, 1758 [Aves]))
  • † Steklovia Schlickum & Strauch, 1972: synonym of † Apula C. R. Boettger, 1909 † (junior subjective synonym)

References

  1. [1]
    Gittenberger E. (1979) "On Elona (Pulmonata, Eloniadae fam. nov.)". Malacologia 18(1-2), Sixth European Malacological Congress, Amsterdam, 139-145.
  2. [2]
    (in German) Nordsieck H. (1986) "Das System der tertiären Helicoidea Mittel- und Westeuropas (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Heldia, 1(4): 109-120, plates 15-17, description at page 116.
  3. [3]
    Tryon G. W. (1894) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. Helicidae - Volume VII. Continued by H. A. Pilsbry, page 289.


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