Milacidae

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Milacidae
Tandonia budapestensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Parmacelloidea
Family: Milacidae
Ellis, 1926
Diversity[1][2]
2 genera, about 50 species,

less than 50 species

Milacidae is a

mollusks in the superfamily Parmacelloidea
.

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of the Milacidae includes the western

Palearctic.[3]

Anatomy

In this family, the number of

haploid chromosomes lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).[4]

Genera

Genera within the family Milacidae include:

Cladogram

The following

limacoid clade:[3]

 
limacoid clade
 

References

  1. ^ (in Polish) Wiktor A. (1989). Limacoidea et Zonitoidea nuda. Slimaki pomrowioksztaltne (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora). Fauna Poloniae 12, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 208 pp., page 184.
  2. ^ Reise H., Hutchinson J. M. C. & Robinson D. G. (2006). "Two introduced pest slugs: Tandonia budapestensis new to the Americas, and Deroceras panormitanum new to the Eastern USA". Veliger 48: 110-115. PDF
  3. ^
    doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR
    .
  4. ISBN 0-85199-318-4
    . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

Further reading

  • Schileyko A. A. (2003). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. 10. Ariophantidae, Ostracolethaidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2. 1309-1466.
  • Wiktor A. (1987). "Milacidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) — systematic monograph". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 41: 153-319.

External links

  • Media related to Milacidae at Wikimedia Commons
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