Subulininae Explained

Subulininae is a subfamily of small tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.

Distribution

Worldwide.^[1]

Anatomy

In this subfamily, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35.^[2]

Genera

Genera in the subfamily Subulininae include:

• Allopeas H. B. Baker, 1935
• Beckianum Baker, 1961^[3]
• Curvella Chaper, 1885
• Dysopeas Baker, 1927^[4]
• Euonyma Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896
• Hypolysia Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901
• Lamellaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882^[3]
• Leptinaria Beck, 1837^[3]
• Leptopeas Baker, 1927^[4]
• Micropeas Connolly, 1923
• Neoglessula Pilsbry, 1909
• Opeas Albers, 1850
• Paropeas Pilsbry, 1906^{[5] [6]}
• Pelatrinia Pilsbry, 1907
• Prosopeas Mörch, 1876
• Pseudoglessula Boettger, 1892
• Pseudopeas Putzeys, 1899
• Striosubulina Thiele, 1933
• Subulina Beck, 1837^[3] - type genus of the subfamily Subulininae
• Vegrandinia Salvador, Cunha & Simone, 2013^[7]
• Zootecus Westerlund, 1887^[8]

Further reading

• Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocyclidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae, Subulinidae, Glessulidae, Micractaeonidae, Ferrussaciidae". In: Ruthenica., Supplement, 2(4): 435–564, Moscow, ISSN 0136-0027.
• Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017

Notes and References

1. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/family?id=40 "Family summary for Subulinidae"
2. 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.
3. http://www.ecosis.cu/cenbio/biodiversidadcuba/fauna/mollusca.htm "Mollusca"
4. Baker, Horace B. 1930: The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela. Occasional Paper of Museum of zoology. 210:1-51
5. Pilsbry H. A. (1906). In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1906) Manual of Conchology (2)18: 14.
6. Naggs F. (1994). "The reproductive anatomy of Paropeas achatinaceum and a new concept of Paropeas (Pulmonata: Achatinoidea: Subulinidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 60(2): 175-191. .
7. Salvador R. B., Cunha C. M. & Simone L. R. L. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the orthalicid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) from Trindade Island, Brazil". Journal of Natural History 47(13-14): 949-961. .
8. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/genus?id=1285 "Genus summary for Zootecus"