| Elonidae | |
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| A live adult and a juvenile of Elona quimperiana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Elonidae Gittenberger, 1977[1] |
Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Subfamilies and genera
[edit]The family Elonidae consists of two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
Genera
[edit]Genera in the family Elonidae include:
- † Cyrtochilus F. Sandberger, 1875
- † Eurystrophe Gude, 1911
- †Joossia Pfeffer, 1930
- † Lychnopsis Vidal, 1917
- † Megalocochlea Wenz, 1919
- † Papillotopsis H. Binder, 2017
- † Puisseguria Schlickum, 1975
- Eloninae
- The type genus is Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. It is a monotypic genus, with only one species: Elona quimperiana
- † Galactochiloides Wenz, 1919
- Norelona Nordsieck, 1986
- Norelona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)
- † Tropidomphalus Pilsbry, 1895
- Klikiinae
- † Apula C. R. Boettger, 1909
- † Klikia Pilsbry, 1895[3]
- † Pseudochloritis C. R. Boettger, 1909
- Synonyms
- Sterna Albers, 1850: synonym of Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 ((Invalid: junior homonym of Sterna Linnaeus, 1758 [Aves]))
- † Steklovia Schlickum & Strauch, 1972: synonym of † Apula C. R. Boettger, 1909 † (junior subjective synonym)
References
[edit]- ^ Gittenberger E. (1979) "On Elona (Pulmonata, Eloniadae fam. nov.)". Malacologia 18(1-2), Sixth European Malacological Congress, Amsterdam, 139-145.
- ^ (in German) Nordsieck H. (1986) "Das System der tertiären Helicoidea Mittel- und Westeuropas (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Heldia, 1(4): 109-120, plates 15-17, description at page 116.
- ^ Tryon G. W. (1894) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. Helicidae - Volume VII. Continued by H. A. Pilsbry, page 289.
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