Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Caenogastropoda
Ordo: Architaenioglossa
Superfamilia: Cyclophoroidea
Familia: Aciculidae
Genera (4): Acicula – Menkia – Platyla – Renea
[Source: MolluscaBase (WoRMS 2019)]
Name
Aciculidae Gray, 1850: 121
Type genus: Acicula Hartmann, 1821
References
Primary references
Gray, J.E. 1850. Figures of molluscous animals selected from various authors. Etched for the use of students by J.E. Gray. Volume 4. Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans: London. iv + 219 pp.
Links
Aciculidae in the MolluscaBase
The Aciculidae are a family of minute land snails which have opercula (an operculum is a little door that closes the shell when the animal retracts into it). In other words, Aciculidae are terrestrial operculate gastropods. Even though Aciculidae are land snails, they live in rather wet conditions, among mosses and dead leaves and they have sometimes been described as "winkles come ashore".
Taxonomy
Previously this family was placed in the infraorder Littorinimorpha, in the suborder Hypsogastropoda in the order Sorbeoconcha in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Ponder & Lindberg (1997).
The family Aciculidae is in the informal group Architaenioglossa, belonging to the clade Caenogastropoda, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
In the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet et al., 2017), it was placed under Cyclophoroidea.[1]
Genera
Genera within the family Aciculidae include:
Acicula W. Hartmann, 1821 - the needle snail, type genus
Menkia Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1985
Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856
Renea Nevill, 1880
Cretatortulosa gignens 2020
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aciculidae.
Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Hausdorf, Bernhard; Kaim, Andrzej; Kano, Yasunori; Nützel, Alexander; Parkhaev, Pavel; Schrödl, Michael; Strong, Ellen E. (2017). "Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families". Malacologia. 61 (1–2): 1–526. doi:10.4002/040.061.0201. ISSN 0076-2997.
Horst Janus, 1965. The Young Specialist Looks at Land and Freshwater Molluscs, Burke, London
Egorov, R. V., 2009, Kladovaja rakovin Rossii [Treasure of Russian shells]. Supplement 3. A review of the genera of the recent terrestrial pectinibranch molluscs (synopsis mainly based on published data). Part II, Littoriniformes. Hainesiidae, Aciculidae, Cyclophoridae, Craspedopomatidae. Moscow. 58 pp
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