Endodontidae
| Endodontidae | |
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
informal group Pulmonata |
| Family: | Endodontidae Pilsbry, 1895
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Endodontidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
The family Endodontidae has no subfamilies.
This family, which includes both snails and slugs, appears to have once been much more diverse, but has declined, and is now endangered due to human activity.
Anatomy
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes varies from 26 to 35 (according to the values in this table).[1]
Distribution
This family is found only in the Pacific islands.
Conservation status
This family is critically endangered and on the verge of extinction, mainly because of habitat loss due to human development.
On American Samoa, some species are in decline due to predation by introduced fire ants.[2]
Genera
Genera within the family Endodontidae include[3]:
- Aaadonta
- Allodiscus
- Anceyodonta
- Charopa
- Cookeconcha
- Endodonta
- Flammocharopa
- Flammoconcha
- Flammulina
- Foxidonta
- Gerontia
- Goniodiscus
- Hirasea
- Hirasiella
- Laoma
- Laomarex
- Libera
- Minidonta
- Nesophila
- Obanella
- Otoconcha
- Paralaoma
- Phacussa
- Phenacharopa
- Phenacohelix
- Philolanka
- Protoendodonta
- Protoflammulina
- Pseudallodiscus
- Ranfurlya
- Rikitea
- Serpho
- Suteria
- Thalassohelix
- Therasia
- Thermia
- Theskelomensor
- Toltecia
- Zyzzyxdonta
References
- ^ 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, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
- ^ Samoan Snail Catalog
- ^ Powell A. W. B. New Zealand Mollusca. William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1.