Streptaxidae

Streptaxidae
Gonospira uvula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Streptaxoidea
Family: Streptaxidae
Gray, 1860[1]
Subfamilies

Enneinae Bourguignat, 1883
Marconiinae Schileyko, 2000
Odontartemoninae Schileyko, 2000
Orthogibbinae Germain, 1921
Streptaxinae Gray, 1860

Diversity[2]
about 1000 species, about 60 genera

Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi.

Streptaxidae are carnivorous except for one species Edentulina moreleti, which is herbivorous.[3] All streptaxids have well-developed radula, except Careoradula perelegans, which is the only known terrestrial gastropod without radula.[4]

Altogether 66 species from the family Streptaxidae are listed in the 2010 IUCN Red List.[5]

  1. ^ Gray J. E. (October 1860) "On the arrangement of the land pulmoniferous Mollusca into families". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, serie 3, 6: 267-269. Streptaxidae is on the page 268.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sutcharit 2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Gerlach, J (2001). "Edentulina moreleti, the first herbivorous streptaxid (Gastropoda)" (PDF). Phelsuma. 9: 75.
  4. ^ Gerlach, J.; van Bruggen, A. C. (1998). "A first record of a terrestrial mollusc without a radula". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 64 (2): 249–250. doi:10.1093/mollus/64.2.249.
  5. ^ IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 27 September 2010.