Ariophantidae

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Ariophantidae

Ariophantidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

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Ariophantidae
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Two live individuals of Macrochlamys indica
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Ariophantidae
Godwin-Austen, 1888[1]
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Distribution

The distribution of the family Ariophantidae includes India and south-eastern Asia.[3]

Anatomy

Snails within this family make and use love darts made of chitin.[4]

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 25 and also lies between 31 and 35, but other values are also possible (according to the values in this table).[5]

Taxonomy

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Subfamilies

The family Ariophantidae consists of 3 subfamilies:

  • Ariophantinae Godwin-Austen, 1888 - synonyms: Naninidae Pfeffer, 1878 (inv.); Hemiplectinae Gude & B. B. Woodward, 1921[6]
  • Macrochlamydinae Godwin-Austen, 1888[1] - synonyms: Tanychlamydinae H. B. Baker, 1928;[7] Vitrinulini Schileyko, 2003[8]
  • Ostracolethinae Simroth, 1901 - synonyms: Parmarioninae Godwin-Austen, 1908;[9] Laocaiini Schileyko, 2002;[10] Microparmarionini Schileyko, 2003;[11] Myotestidae Collinge, 1902[12]

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the family Ariophantidae:[13]

Ariophantinae
Macrochlamydinae
  • Baiaplecta Laidlaw, 1956
  • Himalodiscus Kuznetsov, 1996
  • Macrochlamys Gray, 1847 - type genus of the subfamily Macrochlamydinae[2]
  • Microcystina Mörch, 1872
  • Oxytesta Zilch, 1956
  • Parvatella W. T. Blanford & Godwin-Austen, 1908
  • Rahula Godwin-Austen, 1907
  • Sakiella Godwin-Austen, 1908
  • Sarika Godwin-Austen, 1907
  • Sesara Albers, 1860
  • Syama W. T. Blanford & Godwin-Austen, 1908
  • Tadunia Godwin-Austen, 1918
  • Taphrenalla Pholyotha & Panha, 2021
  • Varadia Bhosale & Raheem, 2021
  • Vitrinula Gray, 1857
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Microparmarion simrothi
Ostracolethinae
  • Apoparmarion Collinge, 1902
  • Cambodiparmarion Kuznetsov & Kuzminykh, 1999
  • Cryptosemelus Collinge, 1902
  • Damayantia Issel, 1874
  • Damayantiella Zilch, 1959
  • Isselentia Collinge, 1901
  • Microparmarion Simroth, 1893
  • Minyongia Godwin-Austen, 1916
  • Ostracolethe Simroth, 1901 - type genus of the subfamily Ostracolethinae
  • Paraparmarion Collinge, 1902
  • Parmarion P. Fischer, 1855
  • Parmunculus Collinge, 1899
  • Philippinella Möllendorff, 1899
  • Wiegmannia Collinge, 1901
Subfamily not assigned
  • Falsiplecta Schileyko & Semenyuk, 2018

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family with other families in the limacoid clade:[3]

limacoid clade

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