Summary
Cerionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.[3]
| Cerionidae | |
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| Cerion chrysalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
| Family: | Cerionidae Pilsbry, 1901[1] |
| Diversity[2] | |
| about 600 nominal species | |
Pre-2008 taxonomy edit
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005),[4] the family Cerionidae is classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea, within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata. The family Cerionidae has no subfamilies.[4]
2008 taxonomy edit
Uit de Weerd (2008)[3] moved the Cerionidae to the newly established superfamily Urocoptoidea based on molecular phylogeny research.[3]
Fossil record edit
The oldest fossil cerionid is C. acherontis from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, in Montana, northwestern USA.[5] The second oldest record is the genus Brasilennea from the Brazilian Paleocene Itaboraí Basin, in Rio de Janeiro.[6]
Genera edit
Genera within the Cerionidae include:
- †Brasilennea Maury, 1935[7]
- Cerion Röding, 1798 - the type genus of the family Cerionidae[4]
- Mexistrophia Thompson, 2011[8]
References edit
- ^ Pilsbry H. A. (1901). Manual of Conchology (2)14(55): 174.
- ^ "Cerion: a web-based resource for Cerion research and identification". accessed 5 April 2011.
- ^ a b c Uit de Weerd D. R. (2008). "Delimitation and phylogenetics of the highly diverse land snail family Urocoptidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) based on 28S rRNA sequence data: A reunion with Cerion". Journal of Molluscan Studies 74: 317–329. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyn023.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Roth, B. & Hartman, J.H. 1998. A probable Cerion (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from Uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, Garfield County, Montana. PaleoBios 18: 16–20.
- ^ Salvador, R.B.; Rowson, B.; Simone, L.R.L. 2011. Rewriting the fossil history of Cerionidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata): new family assignment of the Brazilian Palaeocene genus Brasilennea Maury, 1935. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 445–447. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyr021
- ^ Maury, C.J. 1935. New genera and new species of fossil terrestrial Mollusca from Brazil. American Museum Novitates 764: 1–15.
- ^ Thompson, F.G. 2011. Mexistrophia, a new genus of Cerionidae from Mexico (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Urocoptoidea). Nautilus 125(4): 182–192.
External links edit
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