Acochlidiidae

Acochlidiidae
A live individual of Acochlidium fijiiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Acochlidiacea
clade Hedylopsacea[1]
Family:
Acochlidiidae

Küthe, 1935[2]
Diversity[1][3]
Altogether 3 genera and 6 species; 5 freshwater species, one in brackish waters.
Synonyms[1]

Palliohedylidae Rankin, 1979

Acochlidiidae are a taxonomic family of shell-less freshwater gastropods (one of them Palliohedyle weberi lives in brackish water),[1] aquatic gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.

  1. ^ a b c d Schrödl M. & Neusser T. P. (2010). "Towards a phylogeny and evolution of Acochlidia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 124-154. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00544.x.
  2. ^ (in German) Küthe P. (7 June 1935) "Organisation und systematische Stellung der Acochlidium paradoxum Strubell". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abt. für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Thiere, 66(6): 514-540, 8 plates. Acochlidiidae is on the page 539.
  3. ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.