Plectopyloidea

Plectopyloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[1]

Plectopyloidea
Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Sculptaria sculpturata, family Sculptariidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Plectopyloidea

Möllendorff, 1898

Families

The superfamily Plectopyloidea consists of the following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Distribution

Plectopylidae ranges across large parts of southeast Asia from Nepal to southern Japan.[2] Corillidae is the mainly Sri Lankan family.[2] Sculptariidae is the African family.[2]

Description

The Plectopylidae differ from the Corillidae by the presence of one or two vertical (= perpendicular to the suture) lamellae on the parietal wall, approximately a quarter to a half whorl behind the aperture.[2] In contrast, the Corillidae have only horizontal (= parallel with the suture) parietal plicae (in Corilla all plicae may be absent).[2]

References

This article incorporates Creative Commons (CC-BY-4.0) text from the reference[2]

  1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  2. Páll-Gergely B., Budha P. B., NaggsF., Backeljau T. & Asami T. (2015). "Review of the genus Endothyrella Zilch, 1960 with description of five new species (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Plectopylidae)". ZooKeys 529: 1-70. doi:10.3897/zookeys.529.6139.

Further reading
  • McMichael, D.F. 1959. A new genus and species of land snail from Nth. Queensland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1: 31–32 [13 Nov. 1959]
  • Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 pp. xii 408.
  • Solem, A. 1973. Craterodiscus McMichael, 1959, a camaenid land shell from Queensland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 377–385
  • Solem, A. 1973. Convergence in pulmonate radulae. The Veliger 15: 165–171
  • Stanisic, J. 1998. Family Corillidae. pp. 1110–1112 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5 Part B pp. 565–1234.
  • Tillier, S. 1989. Comparative morphology, phylogeny and classification of land snails and slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora). Malacologia 30: 1–303
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