Subulininae is a subfamily of small tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Achatinidae.
Taxonomy The taxonomy of the Subulinnae remains a source of discussion. It has been raised to the level of family under the name Achatinacea ((Fischer and Crosse 1877; Thiele 1931: 549), later followed by Zilch (1959) and Vaught (1989). This systematic classification was later revealed as polyphyletic (Fontanilla et al. 2017). Molluscabase still considers it as a subfamily of Achatinidae.
Distribution Worldwide."Family summary for Subulinidae". AnimalBase, last modified 21-02-2006, accessed 15 March 2011.
Anatomy In this subfamily, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35.Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
Genera Genera in the subfamily Subulininae include: Allopeas H. B. Baker, 1935 Beckianum Baker, 1961"Mollusca" . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011. Curvella Chaper, 1885 Dysopeas Baker, 1927Baker, Horace B. 1930: The mollusca collected by the University of Michigan – Williamson expedition in Venezuela. Occasional Paper of Museum of zoology. 210:1-51 Euonyma Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896 Hypolysia Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901 Lamellaxis Strebel & Pfeffer, 1882 Leptinaria Beck, 1837 Leptopeas Baker, 1927 Micropeas Connolly, 1923 Neoglessula Pilsbry, 1909 Opeas Albers, 1850 Paropeas Pilsbry, 1906Pilsbry H. A. (1906). In: Tryon G. W. & Pilsbry H. A. (1906) Manual of Conchology (2)18: 14.Naggs F. (1994). "The reproductive anatomy of Paropeas achatinaceum and a new concept of Paropeas (Pulmonata: Achatinoidea: Subulinidae)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 60(2): 175-191. . Pelatrinia Pilsbry, 1907 Prosopeas Mörch, 1876 Pseudarinia Yen, 1952 Pseudoglessula Boettger, 1892 Pseudopeas Putzeys, 1899 Striosubulina Thiele, 1933 Subulina Beck, 1837 - type genus of the subfamily Subulininae Vegrandinia Salvador, Cunha & Simone, 2013Salvador R. B., Cunha C. M. & Simone L. R. L. (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the orthalicid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora) from Trindade Island, Brazil". Journal of Natural History 47(13-14): 949-961. . Zootecus Westerlund, 1887"Genus summary for Zootecus". AnimalBase, accessed 11 october 2010.
References
Further reading Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocyclidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae, Subulinidae, Glessulidae, Micractaeonidae, Ferrussaciidae". In: Ruthenica., Supplement, 2(4): 435–564, Moscow, ISSN 0136-0027. Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: 16 July 2017
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