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Pomatiidae
Apertural view of a shell and an operculum of the land snail Tudorella sulcata in the family Pomatiidae
Apertural view of a shell and an operculum of the land snail Tudorella sulcata in the family Pomatiidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Littorinoidea
Family: Pomatiidae
Newton, 1891 (1828)
Genera

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Synonyms
  • Cyclostomatidae Menke, 1828
  • Cyclotopsinae Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1898
  • Ericiidae Wenz, 1915

The family Pomatiidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that can be found over the warmer parts of the Old World. In the older literature, this family is designated as Pomatiasidae.

This family is a lineage closely related to the Littorinidae (periwinkles) common in coastal habitat. They have adapted to terrestrial life and are thus sometimes called "land winkles".[1]

They are defined by a chalky operculum at the rear end of the body, the shape of their thick shell and their mouth and a characteristic spiral sculpture. The sexes are separate and can sometimes be recognised because the female shell is slightly larger than the male shell.

Taxonomy

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Tropidophora fimbriata haemostoma.

According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), the family Pomatiidae consisted of two subfamilies:[2]

Genera

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Genera within the family Pomatiidae include:

References

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  1. ^ Journal of Molluscan Studies, GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE LAND WINKLE POMATIAS ELEGANS (MÜLLER) (CAENOGASTROPODA: POMATIASIDAE) Volume 67, Issue 2, pp 145–152 (http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/2/145.abstract) Accessed 2014-9-2
  • ^ a b c d e 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.
  • ^ Henderson J. B. Jr. & Bartsch P. (1920). "A classification of the American operculate land mollusks of the family Annulariidae". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 49-82. page 54.
  • ^ Georgia in GBIF Archived 20 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ Guillainia in Bionames.org, accessed 12 december 2015.
  • ^ "Genus summary for Leonia". AnimalBase, accessed 28 march 2011.
  • ^ Lithidion in GBIF
  • ^ KENNETH C. EMBERTON Cryptic, genetically extremely divergent, polytypic, convergent, and polymorphic taxa in Madagascan Tropidophora (Gastropoda: Pomatiasidae) Biological Journal of the Linnean Society - Volume 55, Issue 3, pages 183–208, July 1995
  • ^ "Genus summary for Tudorella". AnimalBase, accessed 28 march 2011.
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