- Source: Melanopsidae
Melanopsidae, common name melanopsids, is a family of freshwater gastropods in the clade Sorbeoconcha. Species in this family are native to southern and eastern Europe, northern Africa, parts of the Middle East, New Zealand, and freshwater streams of some large South Pacific islands.
These snails first appeared in the Late Cretaceous and are closely related to Potamididae. As well as unidirectional evolutionary change from one species to the next over time, the process of hybridization plays a major role in the appearance of new Melanopsidae species.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Melanopsidae has no subfamilies.
Genera
Genera in the family Melanopsidae include:
Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877 - synonym: Fagotia Bourguignat, 1884
Holandriana Bourguignat, 1884 - synonym: Amphimelania P. Fischer, 1885
Holandriana holandrii (C. Pfeiffer, 1828) or Amphimelania holandrii (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)
† Megalonoda Kollmann, 1984
Melanopsis Férussac, 1807 - type genus of the family Melanopsidae
Microcolpia Bourguignat, 1884
† Pseudobellardia Cox, 1931
† Pseudofagotia Anistratenko, 1993
† Stomatopsis Stache, 1871
† Stilospirula Rovereto, 1899 - synonyms: Stylospirula Rovereto, 1899
† Turripontica Anistratenko, 1993
Zemelanopsis Finlay, 1927
Zemelanopsis trifasciata (Gray, 1843)
References
Further reading
(in German) Glaubrecht M. (1996). Evolutionsökologie und Systematik am Beispiel von Süß- und Brackwasserschnecken (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea): Ontogenese-Strategien, Paläontologische Befunde und Zoogeographie. Backhuys, Leiden.
External links
Thomas A. Neubauer - "A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea)" ; 2016, ZooKeys
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Melanopsidae
- Freshwater snail
- Mesogastropoda
- Melanopsis fossilis
- IUCN Red List endangered species (Animalia)
- Melanopsis rifi
- Melanopsis praemorsa
- Melanopsis magnifica
- Melanopsis costata
- Melanopsis brevicula
