Ancylini
Tribe of gastropods
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Ancylini is a tribe of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails and their allies. This tribe used to be treated as a family; the current taxonomic placement within Planorbidae is according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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| A live individual of Ancylus fluviatilis, anterior end towards the left | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Superorder: | Hygrophila |
| Family: | Planorbidae |
| Subfamily: | Ancylinae |
| Tribe: | Ancylini Rafinesque, 1815[1] |
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Anatomy
These animals have a pallial lung, as do all pulmonate snails, but they also have a false gill or "pseudobranch" which can serve perfectly well as a gill in situations where the limpet is unable to reach the surface for air, as is often the case.
Genera
Genera in the tribe Ancylini include:[2][3][4][5]
- Ancylus Müller, 1773 - type genus
- Pseudancylus
- Rhodocephala
- Ferrissia Walker, 1903
- Rhodacmea Walker, 1917
- Sineancylus Gutiérrez Gregoric, 2014[6][7]
- Anisancylus Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1924
- Burnupia Walker, 1912
- Gundlachia Pfeiffer, 1849
- Hebetancylus Pilsbry, 1914
- Laevapex Walker, 1903
- Stimulator
- Uncancylus Pilsbry, 1913