Urocoptidae

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Family of gastropods

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::summary Family of gastropods ::

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Urocoptidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Urocoptoidea.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

The family Urocoptidae was classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

The family Urocoptidae consists of 7 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

2008 taxonomy

Uit de Weerd (2008) moved the Urocoptidae to the newly established superfamily Urocoptoidea based on molecular phylogeny research.

The following cladogram based on Bayesian analysis of sequences of 28S ribosomal RNA shows the phylogenic relations within the Urocoptoidea. There are up to 2008 genetically analyzed species of Urocoptidae and one species of Cerionidae marked in khaki color in the cladogram.

|label1=Urocoptoidea |1={{clade |1={{clade |1={{clade |1={{clade |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=Macroceramus microdon |2=Microceramus pontificus |2={{clade |1=Torrecoptis holguinensis |2=Autocoptis menkeana |2={{clade |1=Simplicervix inornata |2=Brachypodella dominicensis gabbi |2={{clade |1={{clade |1={{clade |1=Dissotropis sp. nov. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=513533&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |2=Anisospira lebmanni |2=Archegocoptis crenata |2=Eucalodium sp. |label2= |2= |2={{clade |1=Coelostemma sp. nov. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=513532&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock&mod=1#modif |2=Hendersoniella lux lux |3=Holospira fortisculpta |3=Epirobia polygyra

2012 taxonomy

Fred G. Thompson established the family Epirobiidae in 2012 for five genera of snails (Epirobia, Propilsbrya, Pectinistemma, Gyrocion, Prionoloplax), that were previously placed within Urocoptidae. Data from molecular phylogeny research as well as morphology supports monophyly of Holospiridae Pilsbry, 1946 and the Eucalodiidae Crosse & Fischer, 1868.

Genera

Genera in the family Urocoptidae include:

Urocoptinae

Apominae

  • Apoma Beck, 1837 - type genus of the subfamily Apomatinae
  • Simplicervix Pilsbry, 1903

Brachypodellinae

  • Brachypodella Beck, 1837 - type genus of the subfamily Brachypodellinae

Eucalodiinae

Holospirinae

Microceraminae

Tetrentodontinae

Other genera include:

References

References

  1. [[Henry Augustus Pilsbry. Pilsbry H. A.]] (1898). ''The Nautilus'' https://archive.org/details/nautilus11amer '''11''': [https://archive.org/stream/nautilus11amer#page/107/mode/1up 107].
  2. {{Bouchet 2005
  3. (2008). "Delimitation and phylogenetics of the diverse land-snail family Urocoptidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) based on 28S rRNA sequence data: A reunion with Cerion". Journal of Molluscan Studies.
  4. Thompson F. G. (2012). "The land snail genus ''Epirobia'' and allied genera in México and Central America, with the description of a new family, the Epirobiidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Urocoptoidea)". ''[[Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History]]'' '''51''': 167-215. [http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/bulletin/vol51no3.pdf PDF].
  5. (2000). "Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) land snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) from Washington and California". Journal of Molluscan Studies.
  6. "Urocoptidae - MICROCERAMIDAE".

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