Littorinoidea are a superfamily of both sea snails and land snails which have a gill and an operculum, terrestrial and marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha.[2]
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| Apertural view of a shell and an operculum of the land snail Tudorella sulcata in the family Pomatiidae | |
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| The land snail Tropidophora fimbriata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Littorinoidea Children, 1834[1] |
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The terrestrial family within this group, the Pomatiidae, are sometimes called "land winkles"[3] because the group originated in the sea and the closely related family Littorinidae are known as "winkles".[4]
Taxonomy
editThese families and subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
- Littorinidae Children, 1834 - the periwinkles
- Subfamily Littorininae Children, 1834
- Subfamily Lacuninae Gray, 1857
- Subfamily Laevilitorininae Reid, 1989
- † Bohaispiridae Youluo, 1978
- Pickworthiidae Iredale, 1917
- Subfamily Pickworthiinae Iredale, 1917 (synonym: Reynellonidae Iredale, 1917)
- Subfamily Pelycidiinae Ponder & Hall, 1983
- Subfamily Sherborniinae Iredale, 1917
- Pomatiidae Newton, 1891 (1828)
- Subfamily Pomatiinae Newton, 1891
- Annulariidae Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
- Subfamily Annulariinae Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
- Subfamily Rhytidopomatinae Henderson & Bartsch, 1920
- Subfamily Tudorinae Watters, 2006
- † Purpurinidae Zittel, 1895
- Skeneopsidae Iredale, 1915
- † Tripartellidae Gründel, 2001
- Zerotulidae Warén & Hain, 1996
(Extinct taxa are indicated by a dagger, †.)
- Families brought into synonymy
- Bembiciidae: synonym of Lacuninae
- Cyclostomatidae: synonym of Pomatiidae
- Ericiidae: synonym of Pomatiidae
- Faxiidae: synonym of Sherborniinae
- Lacunidae: synonym of Littorinidae
- Melarhaphidae: synonym of Littorininae
- Reynellonidae: synonym of Pickworthiinae
- Risellidae: synonym of Lacuninae
References
edit- ^ Children, J. G. (1834). Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. ed. 28: 110.
- ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2): 250.
- ^ Journal of Molluscan Studies, GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE LAND WINKLE POMATIAS ELEGANS (MÜLLER) (CAENOGASTROPODA: POMATIASIDAE) Volume 67, Issue 2, pp 145–152 (http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/2/145.abstract) Accessed 2014-9-2
- ^ The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 1988. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-7735-0654-1.