Urocyclidae

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Family of gastropods

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::summary Family of gastropods ::

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Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.

Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.

Distribution

The Urocyclidae are distributed in the Afrotropical realm, including Madagascar, the Comores and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea.

Taxonomy

The family Urocyclidae consists of 3 subfamilies:

  • subfamily Rhysotininae Schileyko, 2002
  • subfamily Sheldoniinae Connolly, 1925 (1912) - synonyms: Peltatinae Godwin-Austen, 1912; Trochonanininae Connolly, 1912; Trochozonitinae Iredale, 1914; Ledoulxiinae Pilsbry, 1919; Gymnarionidae Von Mol, 1970; Rhysotinidae Schileyko, 2002; Zonitarionini Schileyko, 2002; Acantharionini Schileyko, 2002
  • subfamily Urocyclinae Simroth, 1889

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the family Urocyclidae: ; unsorted

;Subfamily Rhysotininae

; Subfamily Urocyclinae Tribe Dendrolimacini

  • Dendrolimax Heynemann, 1868 - the type genus of the tribe Dendrolimacini

Tribe Leptichnini

  • Leptichnus Simroth, 1896 - the type genus of the tribe Leptichnini

Tribe Upembellini

tribe Urocyclini

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family to 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. Simroth H. (1899). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Nacktschnecken". ''Nova Acta, Kaiserlich Leopoldinish-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher'' (= Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum) '''54'''(1): 1-91, plates 1-4. p. 62.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Urocyclidae Simroth, 1889".
  3. Herbert, Dai. (2004). "Field guide to the land snails and slugs of eastern south Africa". Natal Museum.
  4. Connolly (1925). ''[[Annals and Magazine of Natural History]]'' (9)'''15''': 467.
  5. Godwin-Austen H. H. (1912). "A review of South-African Land-Mollusca belonging to the Family Zonitidae". ''[[Annals and Magazine of Natural History]]'' (8)'''9''': [https://archive.org/stream/ser8annalsmagazi09londuoft#page/122/mode/2up 122]-139. [https://archive.org/stream/ser8annalsmagazi09londuoft#page/1/mode/1up Plate 1]-7. [https://archive.org/stream/ser8annalsmagazi09londuoft#page/124/mode/2up p. 124].
  6. Connolly (1912). ''[[Annals of the South African Museum]]'' '''11'''(3): 101.
  7. Iredale (1914). ''[[Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London]]'' '''11'''(2): 122.
  8. Pilsbry H. A. (1919). ''[[Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History]]'' '''40''': 245.
  9. Van Mol J. J. (1970). "Révision des Urocyclidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Pulmonata). Anatomie - systématique - zoogéographie". ''Annales Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Sciences Zoologiques'' '''180''': 1-231.
  10. Van Goethem J. (1977). "Révision systématique des Urocyclinae (Mollusca, Pulmonata, Urocyclidae)". ''Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Annales, Sciences zoologiques'' '''218''': 355 pp., 4 plates.
  11. {{Bouchet 2005
  12. Herbert D. G. (2004). [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/44709/all ''Sheldonia puzeyi'']. [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.] Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
  13. de Winter A. J. (1987). "''Verrucarion demeryi'', a new semi-slug from Sierra Leone (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Urocyclidae)". ''[[Basteria]]'' '''51'''(4-6): 87-93. [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=7598962 abstract].
  14. Simroth H. (1910). In: Voeltzkow ''Reise O.-Afr., Wiss. Ergebn.'' '''2'''(5): 611.
  15. 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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