Valloniidae

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title: "Valloniidae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["valloniidae"] description: "Family of gastropods" topic_path: "general/valloniidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valloniidae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Family of gastropods ::

|image = Vallonia pulchella.jpg |image_caption = A live individual of Vallonia pulchella |taxon = Valloniidae |authority = Morse, 1864 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms =

• Circinariidae Pilsbry, 1896
• Acanthinulinae Steenberg, 1917
• Pupisomatidae Iredale, 1940 ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Acanthinula_aculeata.jpg" caption="shells]] of ''[[Acanthinula aculeata]]''"] ::

Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.

Chromosome number

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

Taxonomy

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

Genera

Genera within the family Valloniidae include:

• † Acanthopupa Wenz in Fischer & Wenz, 1914
• † Esuinella Harzhauser, Neubauer & Georgopoulou in Harzhauser et al., 2014
• † Nanxiongospira Yü, 1977
• † Sexlamellospira Wang, 1982
• † Shanghuspira Yü, 1977 ;Subfamily Acanthinulinae Steenberg, 1917
• Acanthinula Beck, 1847
• Pupisoma Stoliczka, 1873
• Salpingoma F. Haas, 1937
• Spermodea Westerlund, 1902
• Zoogenetes Morse, 1864 ; Subfamily Valloniinae Morse, 1864
• Gittenbergia Giusti, Castagnoli & Manganelli, 1985
• Plagyrona E. Gittenberger, 1977
• Planogyra Morse, 1864
• Vallonia Risso, 1826 - the type genus of the family Valloniidae

References

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Valloniidae Morse, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593139 on 2020-08-24
2. 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
3. {{Bouchet 2005

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