Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming veliger stage.
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it was an only family within a superfamily Amphiboloidea in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.
2010 taxonomy Jörger et al. (2010)Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 323. . have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.
Genera Genera and species within the family Amphibolidae include: Amphibola Schumacher, 1817 Lactiforis Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007Golding R. E., Ponder W. F. & Byrne M. (2007). "Taxonomy and anatomy of Amphiboloidea (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Archaeopulmonata)". Zootaxa 1476: 1–50. abstract. Naranjia Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007 - with the only one species: Naranjia swatowensis (Yen, 1939) Phallomedusa Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007 Salinator Hedley, 1900 Genera brought into synonymy Ampullacera Quoy & Gaimard, 1832: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817 Thallicera Swainson, 1840: synonym of Amphibola Schumacher, 1817
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