Pleuroceridae

Pleuroceridae
Semisulcospira kurodai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha
Family:	Pleuroceridae Fischer, 1885

Pleuroceridae is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.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.

Io fluvialis

Athearnia anthonyi

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 following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

• Pleurocerinae P. Fischer, 1885 - synonyms: Ceriphasiinae Gill, 1863; Strepomatidae Haldeman, 1864; Ellipstomatidae Hannibal, 1912; Gyrotominae Hannibal, 1912; Anaplocamidae Dall, 1921
• Semisulcospirinae Morrison, 1952 - synonym: Jugidae Starobogatov, Prozorova, Bogatov & Sayenko, 2004 (n.a.)

Genera

Genera within the family Pleuroceridae include:

Pleurocerinae

• Pleurocera

Semisulcospirinae

• Semisulcospira

subfamily ?

• Athearnia
• Anculosa
• Elimia
• Goniobasis
• Gyrotoma
• Io Lea, 1831 - with the only species Io fluvialis (Say, 1825)
• Juga
• Leptoxis
• Lithasia
• Koreanomelania

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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