Amphibulimidae is a taxonomic family of land snails in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.Breure A. S. H. & Romero P. (2012). "Support and surprises: molecular phylogeny of the land snail superfamily Orthalicoidea using a three-locus gene analysis with a divergence time analysis and ancestral area reconstruction (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde: International Journal of Malacology 141(1): 1-20. .
Distribution Amphibulimidae lives across the northern part of South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador), Central America and the West Indies (Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique).Borrero F. J. & Breure A. S. H. (2011). "The Amphibulimidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea) from Colombia and adjacent areas". Zootaxa 3054: 1-59. preview.
Taxonomy 2005
This taxon was placed as a subfamily Amphibuliminae within the family Orthalicidae according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). There was classified also semi-slug Peltella Gray, 1855 within Amphibuliminae and Peltellinae Gray, 1855 was considered as a synonym of Amphibuliminae.
2010 Breure et al. (2010) elevated Amphibuliminae to Amphibulimidae.Breure A. S. H., Groenenberg D. S. J. & Schilthuizen M. (2010). "New insights in the phylogenetic relations within the Orthalicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) based on 28S sequence data". Basteria 74(1-3): 25-31.
2012 Breure & Romero (2012) removed Peltella to subfamily Peltellinae within Bulimulidae.
Genera Genera within the family Amphibulimidae include:
Amphibulima Lamarck, 1805 - type genus of the subfamily Amphibuliminae †Cortana R. B. Salvador & Simone, 2013 Dryptus Albers, 1860Breure A. S. H. & Ablett J. D. (2011) "Annotated type catalogue of the Amphibulimidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London". ZooKeys 138: 1-52. . Gaeotis Shuttleworth, 1854 Pellicula P. Fischer, 1856 Plekocheilus Guilding, 1828 Rhodonyx P. Fischer, 1873
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External links
Beaure A. S. H. & Schlögl J. (2010). "Additional notes on Orthalicidae from the Chimantá massif, Venezuelan Guayana, with descriptions of new species of Plekocheilus Guilding, 1828 (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Zootaxa 2416: 51-60. abstract.