Milacidae

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Family of gastropods

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::summary Family of gastropods ::

| image = Tandonia budapestensis.jpg | image_caption = Tandonia budapestensis | taxon = Milacidae | authority = Ellis, 1926 | diversity_link = | diversity_ref = | diversity = 2 genera, about 50 species,

less than 50 species | synonyms =

Milacidae is a family of air-breathing, keeled, land slugs. These are shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Parmacelloidea.

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

Distribution

The distribution of the Milacidae includes the western Palearctic region.

Anatomy

In the Milacidae family, the number of haploid chromosomes ranges from 31 to 35 (according to the values in this table).

Genera

Genera within the family Milacidae include:

  • Milax Gray, 1855 - type genus
  • Tandonia Lessona & Pollonera, 1882

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families in the limacoid clade:

|label1=limacoid clade |1={{clade |label1=Staffordioidea |1=Staffordiidae |2={{clade |1={{clade |label1=Dyakioidea |1=Dyakiidae |label2=Gastrodontoidea |2={{clade |1=Pristilomatidae |2={{clade |1=Chronidae |2={{clade |1=Euconulidae |2=Trochomorphidae |3={{clade |1=Gastrodontidae |2=Oxychilidae |2={{clade |label1=Parmacelloidea |1={{clade |1=Trigonochlamydidae |2=Parmacellidae |3=Milacidae |2={{clade |1={{clade |label1=Zonitoidea |1=Zonitidae |label2=Helicarionoidea |2={{clade |1=Helicarionidae |2={{clade |1=Ariophantidae |2=Urocyclidae |label2=Limacoidea |2={{clade |1=Vitrinidae |2={{clade |1=Boettgerillidae |2={{clade |1=Limacidae |2=Agriolimacidae

References

References

  1. {{in lang. pl Wiktor A. (1989). ''Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)''. Fauna Poloniae 12, [[Polish Academy of Sciences. Polska Akademia Nauk]], Warszawa, 208 pp., page 184.
  2. Reise H., Hutchinson J. M. C. & Robinson D. G. (2006). "Two introduced pest slugs: ''Tandonia budapestensis'' new to the Americas, and ''Deroceras panormitanum'' new to the Eastern USA". ''Veliger'' '''48''': 110-115. [http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/zoologie/malakologie/malak/hutch/hutchpub/veliger2.htm PDF]
  3. 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  4. 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, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2656267 JSTOR].

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