Cochlicopidae Explained

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

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).^[1]

Taxonomy

The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

• subfamily Cochlicopinae Pilsbry, 1900 (1879) - synonyms: Cionellidae L. Pfeiffer, 1879; Zuidae Bourguignat, 1884
• subfamily Azecinae Watson, 1920 - synonym: Cryptazecinae Schileyko, 1999

Genera

The family Cochlicopidae includes the following genera:

subfamily Cochlicopinae

• Cochlicopa Férussac, 1821 - synonym: Cionella Jeffreys, 1830^[2]

subfamily Azecinae

• Azeca Fleming, 1828
• Cryptazeca Folin & Bérillon, 1877
• Hypnophila Bourguignat, 1858^[3]

Notes and References

1. Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20110622095751/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=270698 "Cochlicopa A. Ferussac 1821"
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20110622095814/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=117063 "Hypnophila Bourguignat 1858"