Pleuroceridae
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| Semisulcospira kurodai | |
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| Family: | Pleuroceridae Fischer, 1885
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Pleuroceridae is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithoidea.These snails have an operculum and typically a robust high-spired shell.
Reproduction is iteroparous, and juvenile snails emerge from eggs laid on a firm surface by a gonochoristic female. There is no veliger stage.
Distribution
Species assigned to this family are widespread in temperate and tropical parts of Southern and Eastern Asia, Africa, and North and Central America. Most require unpolluted rivers and streams, but a few are adapted to living in lakes or reservoirs.
Taxonomy
The new taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) recognizes two subfamilies :
- Pleurocerinae P. Fischer, 1885 - synonym Strepomatidae Haldeman, 1864
- Semisulcospirinae Morrison, 1952
References
Further reading
- Tryon G. W. 1865. Observations on the family Strepomatidae. American Journal of Conchology, 1(2): 97-135.
- Tryon G. W. 1865. Synonymy of the species of Strepomatidae (melanians) of the United States; with critical observations on their affinities, and descriptions of land, fresh water and marine Mollusca. New York, Ballière Brothers, 520 Broadway, 100 pp., 2 plates.
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