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Elonidae

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Elonidae
A live adult and a juvenile of Elona quimperiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Elonidae
Gittenberger, 1977[1]

Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

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The family Elonidae consists of two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera

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Genera in the family Elonidae include:

Eloninae
Klikiinae
Synonyms
  • Sterna Albers, 1850: synonym of Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 ((Invalid: junior homonym of Sterna Linnaeus, 1758 [Aves]))
  • Steklovia Schlickum & Strauch, 1972: synonym of † Apula C. R. Boettger, 1909 † (junior subjective synonym)

References

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  1. ^ Gittenberger E. (1979) "On Elona (Pulmonata, Eloniadae fam. nov.)". Malacologia 18(1-2), Sixth European Malacological Congress, Amsterdam, 139-145.
  2. ^ (in German) Nordsieck H. (1986) "Das System der tertiären Helicoidea Mittel- und Westeuropas (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Heldia, 1(4): 109-120, plates 15-17, description at page 116.
  3. ^ Tryon G. W. (1894) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. Helicidae - Volume VII. Continued by H. A. Pilsbry, page 289.