Lithoglyphidae
Family of gastropods
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Lithoglyphidae is a family of small freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
| Lithoglyphidae | |
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| Live Lithoglyphus naticoides | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: | Lithoglyphidae Tryon, 1866[1] |
This family is in the superfamily Truncatelloidea and in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
Taxonomy
Taylor (1966),[3] Ponder & Warén (1988)[4] and Kabat & Hershler (1993)[5] considered this taxon as a subfamily Lithoglyphinae within Hydrobiidae.[6] Radoman (1983)[7] considered Lithoglyphidae as a separate family.[6] Bernasconi (1992)[8] considered this taxon as a tribe Lithoglyphini in the Hydrobiinae within Hydrobiidae.[6]
2005 taxonomy
The family Lithoglyphidae consists of 2 subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[2] It follows Wilke et al. (2001),[6] Hausdorf et al. (2003)[9] and includes Lepyriidae according to Thompson (1984).[10][2]
Genera
- Subfamily Benedictiinae
- Benedictia W. Dybowski, 1875
- Benedictia (Baicalocochlea) Lindholm, 1927
- Benedictia (Benedictia) W. Dybowski, 1875
- Kobeltocochlea Lindholm, 1909
- Pseudobenedictia Sitnikova, 1987
- Yaroslawiella Sitnikova, 2001[13]
- Benedictia W. Dybowski, 1875
- Subfamily Lithoglyphinae
- Antrorbis Hershler & Thompson, 1990[14]
- 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