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: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Helicina
InfraOrdo: Pupilloidei
Superfamilia: Pupilloidea
Familia: Cerastidae
Genera (23): Achatinelloides – Altenaia – Amimopina – Archeorachis – Cerastus – Conulinus – Euryptyxis – Gittenedouardia – Hoqia – Limicena – Microscintilla – Nesiocerastus – Nesobia – Pachnodus – Paracerastus – Passamaella – Pleurorhachis – Polychordia – Rachis – Rhachidina – Rhachistia – Soqena – Zebrinops
Name
Cerastidae Wenz, 1923
Synonyms
Pachnodidae Steenberg, 1925
Cerastuinae Wenz, 1930
References
Wenz W., 1923: Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia. 3387 pp., published in parts: Part IV, Pars 21: 1069–1420. [Cerastidae is on the page 1072].
Links
Cerastidae in the World Register of Marine Species
Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.[2]
Genera
Achatinelloides Nevill, 1878[3]
Altenaia Zilch, 1972
Amimopina Solem, 1964[4]
Archeorachis Schileyko, 1998
Cerastus E. von Martens, 1860
Conulinus E. von Martens, 1895
Darwininitium Budha & Mordan, 2012
Euryptyxis P. Fischer, 1883
Gittenedouardia Bank & Menkhorst, 2008[5]
Hoqia Neubert, 2005[6]
Limicena Connolly, 1925[7]
Microscintilla Neubert, 2002[8]
Nesiocerastus Van Mol & Coppois, 1980
Nesobia Ancey, 1887
Pachnodus E. von Martens, 1860
Paracerastus Thiele, 1934
Passamaella Clessin, 1878[9]
Pleurorhachis Connolly, 1938
Polychordia Connolly, 1941
Rachis Albers, 1850[10]
Rhachidina Thiele, 1911[11]
Rhachistia Connolly, 1925[7]
Soqena Neubert, 2005[6]
Zebrinops Thiele, 1931
Description
Anatomically speaking, there is no flagellum in the reproductive system of snails in the family Cerastidae, and this is what distinguishes this family from its sister group the family Enidae.[12]
References
Wenz, W. (1923). Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria. Berlin: W. Junk.
MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738097 on 2020-12-31
Nevill, G. (1878). Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Part I. Gastropoda. Pulmonata and Prosobranchia-Neurobranchia. Calcutta: Trustees of the Indian Museum.
Solem, A. (1964). Aminopina, an Australian enid land snail. The Veliger, 6(3), 115–120.
Bank, R. A. & Menkhorst, H. P. (2008). Notes on the nomenclature of some land- and freshwater molluscs of the Seychelles, with consequences for taxa from Africa, Madagascar, India, the Philippines, Jamaica, and Europe. Basteria, 72, 93–110.
Neubert, E. (2005). The continental malacofauna of Arabia and adjacent areas. IV. Revision of the family Cerastidae in the Soqotran Archipelago. I. The genus Passamaella Pfeiffer, 1877, with a description of a new genus and species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Cerastidae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde, 134(1), 1–21.
Connolly, M. (1925). The non-marine Mollusca of Portuguese East Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 12, 105–220.
Neubert, E. (2002). The continental malacofauna of Arabia and adjacent areas. I. Terrestrial molluscs of Samha and Darsa Islands (al-Ikhwan), Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. Fauna of Arabia, 19, 245–259.
Clessin, S. (1878). Aus meiner Novitäten-Mappe. Malakozoologische Blätter, 25, 122–129.
Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen, nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. Berlin: Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin.
Thiele, J. (1911). Mollusken der Deutschen Zentralafrika-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1907–1908 Unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg, 3, 175–214.
Mordan, P. B. (1992). The morphology and phylogeny of the Cerastuinae (Pulmonata: Pupilloidea). Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History, Zoology, 58, 1–20.
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