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| A live individual of Ancylus fluviatilis, anterior end towards the left | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Ancylinae |
| Tribe: | Ancylini Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Ancylini is a tribe of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. This tribe used to be treated as a family; the current taxonomic placement within Planorbidae is according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Anatomy
These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch" which can serve perfectly well as a gill in situations where the limpet is unable to reach the surface for air, as is often the case.
Genera
Genera in the tribe Ancylini include:
- Ancylus Müller, 1773 - type genus
- Pseudancylus
- Rhodocephala
- Ferrissia Walker, 1903
- Rhodacmea Walker, 1917
- Sineancylus Gutiérrez Gregoric, 2014
- Anisancylus Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1924
- Burnupia Walker, 1912
- Gundlachia Pfeiffer, 1849
- Hebetancylus Pilsbry, 1914
- Laevapex Walker, 1903
- Stimulator
- Uncancylus Pilsbry, 1913
References
- Rafinesque C. S. (1815). Analyse de la Nature ou tableau de l'univers et des corps organisés. Palermo, 223 pp.
- "Ancylidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System., accessed 1 January 2008.
- 2000. Ancylidae. (on-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed December 31, 2008 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Ancylidae.html
- "Ancylidae". UniProt. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- dos Santos, S. B. (2003). "Estado atual do conhecimento dos ancilídeos na América do Sul (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Basommatophora)" (PDF). Revista de Biología Tropical (in Portuguese). 51 (3): 191–223. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
- Gutiérrez Gregoric, D. E. (2014). "Sineancylus, Nom. Nov.: A Replacement Name for Anancylus Gutiérrez Gregoric, 2012 (Gastropoda, Ancylidae)". Malacologia. 57 (1): 243. doi:10.4002/040.057.0102. hdl:11336/79720.
- Bouchet, P. (2014). "Sineancylus Gutiérrez Gregoric, 2014". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
External links
- Three individuals of Laevapex fuscus hitchhiking on a water bug, which can fly between ponds
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