Melanopsidae Explained

Melanopsidae, common name melanopsids, is a family of freshwater gastropods in the clade Sorbeoconcha. Species in this family are native to southern and eastern Europe, northern Africa, parts of the Middle East, New Zealand, and freshwater streams of some large South Pacific islands.^[1]

These snails first appeared in the Late Cretaceous and are closely related to Potamididae. As well as unidirectional evolutionary change from one species to the next over time, the process of hybridization plays a major role in the appearance of new Melanopsidae species.^[2]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Melanopsidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

Genera in the family Melanopsidae include:

• Esperiana - synonym: Fagotia Bourguignat, 1884^[3]
• Holandriana - synonym: Amphimelania P. Fischer, 1885^[4]
  • Holandriana holandrii ^[5] or Amphimelania holandrii ^[6]
• † Megalonoda ^[7]
• Melanopsis - type genus of the family Melanopsidae^[8]
• Microcolpia ^[9]
• † Pseudobellardia ^[10]
• † Pseudofagotia ^[11]
• † Stomatopsis ^[10]
• † Stilospirula - synonyms: Stylospirula Rovereto, 1899^{[10] [12]}
• † Turripontica ^[13]
• Zemelanopsis ^[14]
  • Zemelanopsis trifasciata ^[14]

Further reading

• Glaubrecht M. (1996). Evolutionsökologie und Systematik am Beispiel von Süß- und Brackwasserschnecken (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea): Ontogenese-Strategien, Paläontologische Befunde und Zoogeographie. Backhuys, Leiden.

External links

• Thomas A. Neubauer - "A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea)" ; 2016, ZooKeys

Notes and References

1. Banarescu P. (1990). Zoogeography of Fresh Waters Vol. 1, General Distribution and Dispersal of Freshwater Animals. AULA-Verlag Wiesbaden.
2. Bandel K. (2000). "Speciation among the Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda). Special emphasis to the Melanopsidae of the Pannonian Lake at Pontian time (Late Miocene) and the Pleistocene and Recent of Jordan". Mitt. Geol.-Paläont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg, Heft 84.
3. Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=754674 on 2017-11-26
4. Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bank, R.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Holandriana Bourguignat, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738624 on 2017-11-26
5. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/species?id=4129 "Species summary for Holandriana holandrii"
6. https://web.archive.org/web/20121014211638/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=429634 "Amphimelania holandrii (C. Pfeiffer 1828)"
7. Neubauer, Thomas A. (2017). Megalonoda Kollmann, 1984 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1035571 on 2017-11-26
8. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp.,, page 190-194.
9. Neubauer, Thomas A. (2016). Microcolpia Bourguignat, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820468 on 2017-11-26
10. http://www.paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=120373 "Melanopsidae"
11. Neubauer, Thomas A. (2017). Pseudofagotia Anistratenko, 1993 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820489 on 2017-11-26
12. Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Stilospirula †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=754681 on 2017-11-26
13. Neubauer, Thomas A. (2017). Turripontica Anistratenko, 1993 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820490 on 2017-11-26
14. Bandel K. (2006). "Families of the Cerithioidea and related superfamilies (Palaeo-Caenogastropoda; Mollusca) from the Triassic to the Recent characterized by protoconch morphology - including the description of new taxa". Freiberger Forschungshefte C 511: 59-138. PDF.