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Genus of gastropods For a prehistoric state of the Baltic Sea, see Ancylus Lake.

Ancylus
Temporal range: Cenozoic PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Ancylus fluviatilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Hygrophila
Family: Planorbidae
Subfamily: Ancylinae
Tribe: Ancylini
Genus: Ancylus
O. F. Müller, 1773
Species

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Synonyms
  • Ancilus O.F. Müller, 1773 (a misspelling of the generic name Ancylus)
  • Pseudancylus Walker, 1921 (junior objective synonym of Ancylus)
  • Velletia (Ancylus) O. F. Müller, 1773 (new combination)

Ancylus is a genus of very small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets. They are aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the tribe Ancylini within the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies.

The genus is known throughout the Cenozoic.

Species

Species in the genus Ancylus include:

Synonyms

Cladogram

A cladogram based on sequences of mitochondrial 16S ribosomal RNA and cytochrome-c oxidase I (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of Ancylus by Albrecht et al. (2006):

Ancylus

Ancylus sp. C

Ancylus sp. D

Ancylus tapirulus

Ancylus lapicidus

Ancylus scalariformis

Ancylus sp. B

Ancylus sp. A

Ancylus fluviatilis

References

  1. Müller O. F. (1773). Vermivm terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia. Volumen alterum. - pp. I-XXVI , 1-214, . Havniae & Lipsiae. (Heineck & Faber). (1774)
  2. Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Ancylus O. F. Müller, 1773. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559196 on 2014-11-15
  3. (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn V. & Mikuláš R. (1996): Základy zoopaleontologie. Olomouc, 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
  4. ^ "Species in genus Ancylus (n=6)". AnimalBase, accessed 7 July 2012.
  5. Van Damme, D. (2010). "Ancylus ashangiensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T1262A3366218. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T1262A3366218.en. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  6. ^ Albrecht C., Trajanovski S., Kuhn K., Streit B. & Wilke T. (2006). "Rapid evolution of an ancient lake species flock: Freshwater limpets (Gastropoda: Ancylidae) in the Balkan Lake Ohrid". Organisms Diversity & Evolution 6(4): 294-307. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2005.12.003.
  7. Van Damme, D. (2010). "Ancylus regularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T1263A3367167. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T1263A3367167.en. Retrieved 6 July 2024.

Further reading

Taxon identifiers
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