Aillyidae

Aillyidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.^[2]

Aillyidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Aillyoidea H. B. Baker, 1955[1]
Family:	Aillyidae H. B. Baker, 1955[1]
Synonyms
see text

Aillyidae is the only family in the superfamily Aillyoidea.^[2]

This family and the genus is named in honor of Swedish malacologist Adolf d'Ailly (1855-1927).^{[citation needed]}

Taxonomy

The family Aillyidae is classified within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).^[2] This family has no subfamilies.^[2]

Prestonellidae has been tentatively placed as a synonym of Aillyidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.^[2] Herbert & Mitchell (2009)^[3] have moved Prestonellidae to the superfamily Orthalicoidea.^[3]

Genera

• Aillya Odhner, 1927^[4] - type genus of the family Aillyidae^[2]
  • Aillya camerunensis Odhner, 1927^[4][5] - it lives in Africa^{[3][4][where?]}

References

1. Baker H. B. (1955). "Heterurethrous and aulocopod". The Nautilus 68(4): 109-112.
2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
3. Herbert D. G. & Mitchell A. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella: the missing African element in the Gondwanan superfamily Orthalicoidea (Mollusca: Stylommatophora)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 96(1): 203-221. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01109.x.
4. Odhner N. H. (1927). "Aillya camerunensis n. gen., n. sp. An African bulimuloid snail.". Arkiv för Zoologi 19a(20): 1.
5. Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 3: Partulidae, Aillyidae, Bulimulidae, Orthalicidae, Megaspiridae, Urocoptidae". Ruthenica (Suppl. 2): 272.