Amphibolidae Explained

Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.

This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming veliger stage.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it was an only family within a superfamily Amphiboloidea in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.

2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010)^[1] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.

Genera

Genera and species within the family Amphibolidae include:

• Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
• Lactiforis Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007^[2]
• Naranjia Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007^[2] - with the only one species: Naranjia swatowensis (Yen, 1939)^[2]
• Phallomedusa Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007
• Salinator Hedley, 1900^[2]

Genera brought into synonymy:

• Ampullacera Quoy & Gaimard, 1832: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
• Thallicera Swainson, 1840: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817

Notes and References

1. Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. .
2. Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)". Zootaxa 1476: 1–50. abstract.