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: Rhytidoidei
Superfamilia: Rhytidoidea
Familia: Dorcasiidae
Genera: Dorcasia – Trigonephrus – Tulbaghinia
Name
Dorcasiidae Connolly, 1915
References
Primary references
Connolly, M. 1915. Notes on South African Mollusca. Annals of the South African Museum 13: 120.
Dorcasiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
The family Dorcasiidae has no subfamilies.[2]
Distribution
Found in southern Africa.[3]
Genera
Genera within the family Dorcasiidae include:
Dorcasia Gray, 1838 - the type genus of the family Dorcasiidae[2]
Trigonephrus Pilsbry, 1905[3]
Tulbaghinia Melvill & Ponsonby, 1898
References
Connolly M. (1915). "Notes on South African Mollusca". Annals of the South African Museum 13: 99-178. plates 2-4. Page 120, 134.
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.
Gess F. W. & Gess S. K. (1999). "The use by wasps, bees and spiders of shells of Trigonephrus Pilsb. (Mollusca: Gasteropoda: Dorcasiidae) in desertic winter-rainfall areas in southern Africa". Journal of Arid Environments 43(2): 143-153. doi:10.1006/jare.1999.0549.
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