Hygromiidae

Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

Hygromiidae
A live individual of Trochulus hispidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Hygromiidae
Tryon, 1866
Type genus
Hygromia
Risso, 1826
Genera

Anatomy

Some snails in genera within this family create and use love darts as part of their courtship and mating behavior.

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[1]

Taxonomy

The family Hygromiidae consists of the following subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

  • subfamily Hygromiinae Tryon, 1866
    • tribe Hygromiini Tryon, 1866 - synonym: Cernuellini Schileyko, 1991
    • tribe Archaicini Schileyko, 1978
    • tribe Leptaxini C. Boettger, 1909
    • tribe Metafruticicolini Schileyko, 1972
    • tribe Trochulini Lindholm, 1927 - synonym: Trichiinae Ložek, 1956; Helicopsini H. Nordsieck, 1987
  • subfamily Ciliellinae Schileyko, 1970 - synonym: Canariellini Schileyko, 1991
  • subfamily Monachainae Wenz, 1930 (1904) - Carthusianini Kobelt, 1904; Euomphaliinae Schileyko, 1978; Hesseolinae schileyko, 1991
  • subfamily Ponentininae Schileyko, 1991

Genera

Genera with the family Hygromiidae include:

The type genus of this family is Hygromia Risso, 1826.

subfamily Hygromiinae Tryon, 1866

  • Caucasigena Lindholm, 1927[2]
  • Caucasocressa P. Hesse, 1921[2]
  • Circassina P. Hesse, 1921[2]
  • Diodontella Lindholm, 1929[2]
  • Dioscuria Lindholm, 1927[2]
  • Fruticocampylaea Kobelt, 1871[2]
  • Helicopsis Fitzinger, 1833[2]
  • Hygrohelicopsis Schileyko, 1978[2]
  • Kalitinaia Hudec & Lezhawa, 1967[2]
  • Kokotschashvilia Hudec & Lezhawa, 1969[2]
  • Lozekia Hudec, 1970[3]
  • Noneulota Schileyko & Horsák, 2007[4]
  • Shileykoia Hudec, 1969[2]
  • Teberdinia Schileyko, 1978[2]
  • Zenobiellina Holyoak, D. T. & Holyoak, G. A., 2018

subfamily Ciliellinae

subfamily Leptaxinae C.R. Boettger, 1909

subfamily Geomitrinae

Subfamily Metafruticicolinae Schileyko, 1972

    • Cyrnotheba Germain, 1928
    • Hiltrudia H. Nordsieck, 1993
    • Metafruticicola Ihering, 1892

subfamily Monachainae

  • Jasonella Lindholm, 1927[2]
  • Karabaghia Lindholm, 1927[2]
  • Oscarboettgeria Lindholm, 1927[2]

subfamily Ponentininae

subfamily Trochulininae Lindholm, 1927

subfamily ?

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Caucasian Land Snails" Archived 2014-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. accessed May 2, 2014.
  3. "Lozekia Hudec 1970". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 September 2010.
  4. Schileyko A. A. & Horsák M. (2007). "A new genus and two new species of Hygromiidae (Pulmonata) from southern Siberia". Ruthenica 17(1-2): 69-72. abstract.
  5. Cucherat X. & Demuynck S. (2006). "Catalogue annoté des Gastéropodes terrestres (Mollusca, Gastropoda) de la région Nord - Pas-de-Calais". MalaCo, Bulletin de la Malacologie Continentale Française, (2) Archived 2008-11-13 at the Wayback Machine: page 81. http://www.journal-malaco.fr/page-5.html Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Geomitrini". Fauna Europaea, last update 27 January 2011, accessed 4 August 2011.
  7. "Trochoidea T. Brown 1827". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 September 2010.
  8. "Plentuisa Puente & Prieto 1992". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 September 2010.
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