Semisulcospiridae, common name semisulcospirids, is a family of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks with an operculum, in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[3]

Semisulcospiridae
A live individual of Semisulcospira kurodai crawling on the glass of an aquarium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Semisulcospiridae
Morrison, 1952[1]
Type species
Hortia arriuensis Lozouet, 1999
Species

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Diversity[2]
about 50 extant species
Synonyms[3]

Jugidae Starobogatov, Prozorova, Bogatov & Sayenko, 2004 (n.a.)

Semisulcospiridae diversified from the Pleuroceridae about 90 million years ago, in the Cretaceous.[4]

Distribution

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The family Semisulcospiridae occurs in western North America, the Far East of Russia, Korea, Japan, China and Vietnam.

Taxonomy

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The family Semisulcospiridae was introduced as just a name (nomen nudum) by Morrison (1952),[1] without a diagnosis of the taxon. It is a valid taxon however, because its name has been used as valid.

2005 taxonomy

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According to the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), Semisulcospiridae was a subfamily within the family Pleuroceridae.[5]

2009 taxonomy

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The subfamily Semisulcospirinae within the Pleuroceridae was elevated to family level as Semisulcospiridae by Strong & Köhler (2009).[4]

Genera

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There is very high level of mitochondrial heterogeneity in apparent species of Semisulcospiridae (highest among gastropods, also with Pleuroceridae), that has not been sufficiently explained yet as of 2015.[6]

Genera within the family Semisulcospiridae include:

Genera brought into synonymy
  • Biwamelania Matsuoka, 1985: synonym of Semisulcospira O. Böttger, 1886
  • Koreanomelania:[4] synonym of Koreoleptoxis J. B. Burch & Y. Jung, 1988
  • Namrutua Abbott, 1948: synonym of Semisulcospira O. Böttger, 1886 (junior synonym)
  • "Parajuga":[4] synonym of Juga H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 (unavailable name: no type species designated)
  • Senckenbergia Yen, 1939: synonym of Semisulcospira O. Böttger, 1886 (junior synonym)

References

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  1. ^ a b Morrison (1952). The American Malacological Union. News Bulletin and Annual Report 1951: 8.
  2. ^ Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
  3. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Semisulcospiridae J. P. E. Morrison, 1952. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=715954 on 2021-03-08
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Strong E. & Köhler F. (2009). "Morphological and molecular analysis of "Melania" jacqueti Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906: from anonymous orphan to critical basal offshoot of the Semisulcospiridae (Gastropoda: Cerithioidea)". Zoologica Scripta 38(5): 483-502. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00385.x
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Whelan N. V. & Strong E. E. (2015). "Morphology, molecules and taxonomy: extreme incongruence in pleurocerids (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea, Pleuroceridae)". Zoologica Scripta> 26 pp. doi:10.1111/zsc.12139.
  • Campbell D.C. (2019). Semisulcospiridae Morrison, 1952. pp. 81–85, in: C. Lydeard & C.S. Cummings (eds), Freshwater mollusks of the world. A distribution atlas. 242 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
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