Epiphragmophorinae Explained

Epiphragmophorinae is a subfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Xanthonychidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies.

Shileyko (2004) listed 40 species within Epiphragmophorinae. There are about 65 recognized species within Epiphragmophorinae in 2017.

Anatomy

This family is defined by the absence of a diverticulum. These snails have one dart apparatus with a stylophore (dart sac), and one or two mucus glands that are inserted on the dart sac and on the accessory sac, or at the base of the dart sac.

Genera

Genera within the family Epiphragmophorinae include:

• Angrandiella Ancey, 1886^[1]
• Dinotropis Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1937^[1]
• Doeringina Ihering, 1929^[1]
• Epiphragmophora Doering, 1874^[2] - the type genus of the family Epiphragmophoridae. It occurs from Argentina to Bolivia.^[3]
• Minaselates Cuezzo & Pena, 2017 - with the only species Minaselates paradoxa Cuezzo & Pena, 2017^[4]
• Pilsbrya Ancey, 1887 - synonym: Poecilostola Ancey 1886^[1]

Further reading

• Fernández . D. . Rumi . A. . 1984 . Revisión del género Epiphragmophora de la malacofauna terrestre Argentina . . 37 . 2. 231–272 .

Notes and References

1. Schileyko A. A. (2004). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 12: Bradybaenidae, Monadeniidae, Xanthonychidae, Epiphragmophoridae, Helminthoglyptidae, Elonidae, Humboldtianidae, Sphincterochilidae, Cochlicellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2, Moscow. (ISSN 0136-0027)
2. Döring . D. A. . 1874 . Apuntes sobre la fauna de moluscos de la Republica Argentina . . 1 . 424–460. 446 .
3. Cuezzo . M. G. . 2006 . Systematic Revision and Cladistic Analysis of Epiphragmophora Doering from Argentina and Southern Bolivia (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Xanthonychidae) . . 49 . 1. 121–188 . 10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.121 . Epiphragmophora . 84786711 . 11336/85865 . free .
4. 10.3897/zoologia.34.e13230. 1984-4689. 34. 1–12. Cuezzo. Maria Gabriela. Pena. Meire Silva. Minaselates, a new genus and new species of Epiphragmophoridae from Brazil (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicoidea). Zoologia. 2017-04-27. free. 11336/63334. free.