Amnicolidae Explained

Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.

This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.

Subfamilies

The family Amnicolidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

• Subfamily Amnicolinae Tryon, 1863, synonymised with:
  • Tribe Erhaiini Davis & Kuo, 1985
  • Subfamily Lyogyrinae Pilsbry, 1916
  • Subfamily Parabythinellinae Radoman, 1976
  • Tribe Pseudobythinellini Davis & Chen, 1992
• Subfamily Baicaliinae P. Fisher, 1885, synonymised with:
  • Subfamily Liobaicaliinae B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1913
  • Subfamily Turribaicaliinae B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917

Genera

• Subfamily Amnicolinae Tryon, 1863
  • Akiyoshia Kuroda & Habe, 1954^[1], synonymised with:
    • Akiyoshia (Saganoa) Kuroda, Habe & Tamu, 1958
  • Amnicola Gould & Haldeman, 1840, synonymised with:
    • Amnicola (Amnicola) Gould & Haldeman, 1840
    • Hydrobia (Amnicola) Gould & Haldeman, 1840
  • Chencuia Davis, 1997
  • Colligyrus Hershler, 1999
  • Dasyscias F. G. Thompson & Hershler, 1991
  • Erhaia Davis & Kuo, 1985,^[2] synonymised with:
    • Pseudobythinella Liu & Zhang, 1979
  • Kolhymamnicola Starobogatov & Budnikova, 1976
  • Lyogyrus Gill, 1863
  • Marstoniopsis van Regteren Altena, 1936
  • Moria Kuroda & Habe, 1958
  • Rachipteron F.G. Thompson, 1964^[3]
• Subfamily Baicaliinae P. Fisher, 1885
  • Baicalia Martens, 1876, synonymised with:
    • Baicalia (Baicalia) Martens, 1876
    • Baicalia (Trachybaicalia) Martens, 1876
    • Baikalia Dall, 1877
    • Baikalia (Trachybaikalia) G. Nevill, 1885
    • Limnorea W. Dybowski, 1875
    • Limnorea (Ligea) W. Dybowski, 1875
    • Trachybaikalia G. Nevill, 1885
    • Turribaicalia B. Dybowski & Grochmalicki, 1917
  • Dybowskia Dall, 1877
  • Godlewskia Crosse & P. Fischer, 1879
  • Korotnewia Kozhov, 1936
  • Liobaicalia Martens, 1876, synonymised with:
    • Baicalia (Liobaicalia) Martens, 1876
    • Hydrobia (Liobaikalia) Dall, 1877
    • Limnorea (Leucosia) W. Dybowski, 1875
  • Maackia Clessin, 1880,^[4] synoynmised with:
    • Baicalia (Maackia) Clessin, 1880
    • Maackia (Eubaicalia) Lindholm, 1924
    • Maackia (Maackia) Clessin, 1880
  • Parabaikalia Lindholm, 1909
  • Pseudobaikalia Lindholm, 1909, synonymised with:
    • Pseudobaicalia B. Dybowski, 1911
    • Pseudobaikalia (Microbaicalia) Kozhov, 1936
    • Pseudobaikalia (Pseudobaikalia) Lindholm, 1909
  • Pyrgobaicalia Starobogatov, 1972
  • Teratobaikalia Lindholm, 1909, synonymised with:
    • Teratobaikalia (Baikaliella) Lindholm, 1909
    • Teratobaikalia (Teratobaikalia) Lindholm, 1909
    • Teratobaikalia (Trichiobaikalia) Lindholm, 1909

Notes and References

1. Davis G. M. & Rao S. (1997). "Discovery of Erhaia (Gastropoda: Pomatiopsidae) in northern India with description of a new genus of Erhaiini from China". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 48: 273-299. JSTOR.
2. Davis G. M., Kuo Y.-H. Hoagland K. E., Chen P.-L., Yang H.-M. & Chen D.-J. (1985). Erhaia, a new genus and new species of Pomatiopsidae from China (Gastropoda: Rissoacea). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 137, 48–78.
3. Thompson F. G. (1964). A new aquatic snail of the family Amnicolidae from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical, 12(1), 97–105.
4. Fazalova V., Nevado B., Peretolchina T., Petunina J. & Sherbakov D. (2010). "When environmental changes do not cause geographic separation of fauna: differential responses of Baikalian invertebrates". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 320. .