Parmacellidae

Parmacellidae
Temporal range: ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent
Parmacella valenciennii
Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Parmacelloidea
Family: Parmacellidae
P. Fischer, 1856 (1855)
Genera

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Synonyms

Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)

Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

Distribution

The distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western Palearctic, and ranges from the Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan.

Genera

Genera within family Parmacellidae include:

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade:

limacoid clade

References

  1. 1 2 "Family summary for Parmacellidae". AnimalBase, last modified 21 February 2009, accessed 1 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Schileyko, A. A. (2003). "On the conservation of the name Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856" (PDF). Ruthenica. 13 (2): 167–168. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011.
  3. 1 2 Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  4. ↑ Kantor, Yu I.; Vinarski, M. V.; Schileyko, A. A.; Sysoev, A. V. (December 22, 2009). "Catalogue of the continental mollusks of Russia and adjacent territories" (PDF). Ruthenica. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011.
  5. ↑ Schileyko, A. A. (2007). "Levanderiella, a new name for Levanderia Likharev et Wiktor, 1980 (Pulmonata, Parmacellidae)" (PDF). Ruthenica. 17 (1–2): 84. Archived from the original on March 2, 2011.
  6. 1 2 Parmacellidae. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.

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