Pachychilidae

Pachychilidae
Temporal range: Paleogene - recent
Two shells of Pachychilus laevissimus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pachychilidae
P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892[1]
Type genus
Pachychilus
I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851
Diversity[2][3]
191-226 extant species
Synonyms
  • Brotiinae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1987[4]
  • Fauninae Cossmann, 1909[5]
  • Melanatriinae Thiele, 1921[6]
  • Potadomatinae Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927[7]

Pachychilidae, common name pachychilids, is a taxonomic family of freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.[8]

  1. ^ Fischer P. & Crosse H. (19 November 1892). "Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale". Recherches zoologiques, Partie 7, 2(13): 313.
  2. ^ Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. http://hdl.handle.net/10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Golikov & Starobogatov (1987). Vsesoiuznoe soveshchanie po izucheniiu molliuskov 8: 25.
  5. ^ Cossmann (1909). Essais de paléoconchologie comparrée 8: 156.
  6. ^ Thiele (1921). Archiv für molluskenkunde 53(3): 142.
  7. ^ Pilsbry H. A. & Bequaert J. (1927). "The Aquatic Mollusks of the Belgian Congo. With a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 53(2): 69-602. pages 248 and 272. PDF.
  8. ^ Gofas, S. (2014). Pachychilidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411651 on 2014-11-20