Lithoglyphidae is a family of small freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
This family is in the superfamily Truncatelloidea and in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Taxonomy Taylor (1966),Taylor D. W. (1966). "A remarkable snail fauna from Coahuila, México". The Veliger 9: 2152–2228. Ponder & Warén (1988)Ponder W. F. & Warén A. (1988). "Appendix: Classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha—a list of the family-group names and higher taxa: prosobranch phylogeny". Malacological Review, 4, 288–326. and Kabat & Hershler (1993)Kabat A. R. & Hershler R. (1993). "The prosobranch snail family Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda: Rissooidea): review of classification and supraspecific taxa". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 547: 1-94. PDF. considered this taxon as a subfamily Lithoglyphinae within Hydrobiidae. Radoman (1983)Radoman P. (1983). "Hydrobioidea a superfamily of Prosobranchia (Gastropoda). I. Sistematics". Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Monographs DXLVII, Department of Sciences 571: 1-256. considered Lithoglyphidae as a separate family. Bernasconi (1992)Bernasconi R. (1992). Systematics of Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda Prosobranchia Monotocardia Rissoacea). A compendious survey with proposals for an improved classification. Disposed at the 11th International Malacological Congress, Siena. 14 pp. considered this taxon as a tribe Lithoglyphini in the Hydrobiinae within Hydrobiidae.
2005 taxonomy The family Lithoglyphidae consists of 2 subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005. It follows Wilke et al. (2001), Hausdorf et al. (2003) and includes Lepyriidae according to Thompson (1984).Thompson F. G. (1984). "North American freshwater snail genera of the hydrobiid subfamily Lithoglyphinae". Malacologia 25(1): 109-141. subfamily Lithoglyphinae Tryon, 1866 - synonyms: Fluminicolinae Clessin, 1880; Lepyriidae Pilsbry & Olsson, 1951Pilsbry H. A. & Olsson A. A. (1951). "The Lepyriidae, a new family of fresh-water snails (Gastropoda, Rissoacea)". Notulae Naturae of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 233, 1–5. subfamily Benedictiinae Clessin, 1880 Clessin S. (1880). "Studien über die Familie der Paludinen". Malakozoologische Blätter (ser. 2)2: 161-196. page 194.
Genera Subfamily Benedictiinae Benedictia W. Dybowski, 1875 Benedictia (Baicalocochlea) Lindholm, 1927 Benedictia (Benedictia) W. Dybowski, 1875 Kobeltocochlea Lindholm, 1909 Pseudobenedictia Sitnikova, 1987 Yaroslawiella Sitnikova, 2001Ситникова Т. Я. [Sitnikova T. Ya.] (2001). "Новый род и вид байкальского эндемичного моллюска Yaroslawiella eximia (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobioidea)". ["A new genus and species of Baikalian endemic mollusc Yaroslawiella eximia (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobioidea)"]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 80(4), 499–502. Subfamily Lithoglyphinae Antrorbis Hershler & Thompson, 1990Hershler, R. & Thompson, F. (1990). Antrorbis breweri, a new genus and species of hydrobiid cavesnail (Gastropoda) from Coosa River Basin, northeastern Alabama. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 103(1), 197–204. Clappia Walker, 1909 Dabriana Radoman, 1974 Fluminicola Stimpson, 1865, synonymised with: Fluminicola (Gillia) Stimpson, 1865 Heathilla Hannibal, 1912 Gillia Stimpson, 1865 Holsingeria Hershler, 1989 Lepyrium Dall, 1896 Lithoglyphus C. Pfeiffer, 1828 Phreatodrobia Hershler & Longley, 1986 Pristinicola Hershler, Frest, Johannes, Bowler & F. G. Thompson, 1994 Pterides Pilsbry, 1909 Somatogyrus Gill, 1863
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