| Valloniidae | |
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| A live individual of Vallonia pulchella | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Gastropoda | 
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia | 
| Order: | Stylommatophora | 
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea | 
| Family: | Valloniidae Morse, 1864 | 
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Four shells of Acanthinula aculeata
Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.[2]
Chromosome number
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[3]
Taxonomy
The family Valloniidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[1]
Genera
Genera within the family Valloniidae include:
- † Acanthopupa Wenz in Fischer & Wenz, 1914
- † Esuinella Harzhauser, Neubauer & Georgopoulou in Harzhauser et al., 2014
- † Nanxiongospira Yü, 1977
- † Sexlamellospira Wang, 1982
- † Shanghuspira Yü, 1977
- Subfamily Acanthinulinae Steenberg, 1917
- Acanthinula Beck, 1847[1]
- Pupisoma Stoliczka, 1873
- Salpingoma F. Haas, 1937
- Spermodea Westerlund, 1902
- Zoogenetes Morse, 1864
- Subfamily Valloniinae Morse, 1864
- Gittenbergia Giusti, Castagnoli & Manganelli, 1985
- Plagyrona E. Gittenberger, 1977
- Planogyra Morse, 1864
- Vallonia Risso, 1826 - the type genus of the family Valloniidae[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Valloniidae Morse, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593139 on 2020-08-24
- ↑ Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
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