Epiphragmophorinae

Epiphragmophorinae is a subfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Xanthonychidae (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).^[2] This family has no subfamilies.^[2]

Epiphragmophorinae
live Minaselates paradoxa
Epiphragmophora clausomphalos shell
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Xanthonychidae
Subfamily:	Epiphragmophorinae Hoffmann, 1928[1]
Genera and species
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Shileyko (2004) listed 40 species within Epiphragmophorinae.^[3] There are about 65 recognized species within Epiphragmophorinae in 2017.^[4]

Anatomy

This family is defined by the absence of a diverticulum. These snails have one dart apparatus with a stylophore (dart sac), and one or two mucous glands that are inserted on the dart sac and on the accessory sac, or at the base of the dart sac.^{[citation needed]}

Genera

Genera within the family Epiphragmophorinae include:

• Angrandiella Ancey, 1886^[3]
• Dinotropis Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1937^[3]
• Doeringina Ihering, 1929^[3]
• Epiphragmophora Doering, 1874^[5] - the type genus of the family Epiphragmophoridae.^[2] It occurs from Argentina to Bolivia.^[6]
• Minaselates Cuezzo & Pena, 2017 - with the only species Minaselates paradoxa Cuezzo & Pena, 2017^[4]
• Pilsbrya Ancey, 1887 - synonym: Poecilostola Ancey 1886^[3]

References

1. Hoffmann H. (1928). Dr. H. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs Band 3, Mollusca. Abteilung 2, Gastropoda. Buch 2, Pulmonata. Lieferung 151. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig: 1221-1354. page 1239.
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. Schileyko A. A. (2004). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 12: Bradybaenidae, Monadeniidae, Xanthonychidae, Epiphragmophoridae, Helminthoglyptidae, Elonidae, Humboldtianidae, Sphincterochilidae, Cochlicellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2, Moscow. (ISSN 0136-0027)
4. Cuezzo, Maria Gabriela; Pena, Meire Silva (2017-04-27). "Minaselates, a new genus and new species of Epiphragmophoridae from Brazil (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Helicoidea)". Zoologia. 34: 1–12. doi:10.3897/zoologia.34.e13230. hdl:11336/63334. ISSN 1984-4689.
5. Döring, D. A. (1874). "Apuntes sobre la fauna de moluscos de la Republica Argentina". Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas. 1 (424–460): 446.
6. Cuezzo, M. G. (2006). "Systematic Revision and Cladistic Analysis of Epiphragmophora Doering from Argentina and Southern Bolivia (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Xanthonychidae)". Malacologia. 49 (1): 121–188. doi:10.4002/1543-8120-49.1.121. hdl:11336/85865. S2CID 84786711.

Further reading

• Fernández, D.; Rumi, A. (1984). "Revisión del género Epiphragmophora de la malacofauna terrestre Argentina". Acta Zoológica Lilloana. 37 (2): 231–272.