Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Hygrophila
Superfamilia: Lymnaeoidea
Familia: Acroloxidae
Genera (5): Acroloxus – Baicalancylus – Frolikhiancylus – Gerstfeldtiancylus – Pseudancylastrum
Name
Acroloxidae Thiele, 1931: 484
Type Genus: Acroloxus Beck, 1837.
References
Primary references
Thiele, J. 1931. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Erster Band. Teil II. Gustav Fischer: Jena. 377–778 pp. GoogleBooks Reference page.
Acroloxidae, commonly known as river limpets, are a taxonomic family of very small, freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod limpet-like mollusks with a simple flattened conical shell in the clade Hygrophila.
Acroloxidae is the only family within the superfamily Acroloxoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution
Worldwide.[2]
Anatomy
Pulmones are reduced. Sexual cavity and accessory gills are on the right side.[2]
Genera
Genera within the family Acroloxidae include:
Acroloxus Beck, 1838[3] - type genus[4]
Baicalancylus Starobogatov, 1967[4]
Frolikhiancylus Sitnikova & Starobogatov, 1993
Gerstfeldtiancylus Starobogatov, 1989[4][5]
Pseudancylastrum Lindholm, 1909[4][6]
Synonyms
Costovelletia Starobogatov, 1991: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (a junior synonym)
Dinarancylus Starobogatov, 1991: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (a junior synonym)
Velletia J. E. Gray, 1840: synonym of Acroloxus H. Beck, 1838 (junior objective synonym)
References
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This article incorporates public domain text from the reference.[2]
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.
"Family summary for Acroloxidae". AnimalBase, last change 14-08-2006, accessed 3 August 2010
Beck H. (1837). Index molluscorum præsentis ævi musei principis augustissimi Christiani Frederici. pp. 1-100 [1837], 101-124 [1838]. Hafniae.
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.
Starobogatov (1989). In: Linevich (Ed.) Fauna Baikala. Chast' 4 - Chervi, mollyuski, chlenistonogie: sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Fauna of Lake Baikal. Part 4 - worms, molluscs and arthropods: collected scientific papers. Nauka, Novosibirsk: 58.
Lindholm (1909). Wiss. Ergeb. Exped. Baikal 4: 26.
Thiele, J. (1929–1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp.
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