Enoidea
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Mountain wolverine snail ( Ena montana ) |
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| BB Woodward , 1903 |
The Enoidea are a superfamily of snails from the subordination of land snails (Stylommatophora). The representatives of the superfamily are native to Eurasia, Africa and Northern Australia.
features
The housings are ovoid, conical to slim, highly conical and are medium-sized. The embryonic casing is usually smooth, rarely spirally striped. The juvenile and adult coils, on the other hand, are ornamented in different ways, or they are almost smooth. The mouth can be reinforced, but also without teeth and lamellae. If teeth are present, they are formed shortly before adulthood. The mouth edges are simple to bent and widened; often a mouth lip is also formed. The navel can be narrow and open or closed. In the hermaphroditic genital apparatus, the penis has an epiphallus and often also a flagellum. A blind sac (caecum) attaches to the epiphallus. The inner wall of the penis usually has a relief with longitudinal pillar structures. A penile appendix is usually present, the penile retractor is branched. The stalk of the spermathec is usually provided with a diverticulum.
Geographical distribution and way of life
The representatives of the superfamily Enoidea are known from Eurasia, Africa and Northern Australia as well as from the Canary Islands and the Azores . Most of them are herbivores that feed on dead plant material.
Systematics
According to Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the superfamily includes two families Enidae Woodward, 1903 and Cerastidae Wenz, 1925. Schileyko (1998) also divides the superfamily into two families, with the Cerastidae using the younger synonym Pachnodidae Steenberg, 1925.
- Superfamily Enoidea Woodward, 1903
- Wolverine snails family Enidae Woodward, 1903
- Eninae Woodward subfamily , 1903
- Tribe Enini Woodward, 1903
- Tribus Chondrulini Wenz, 1923
- Tribus Multidentulini Schileyko, 1978
- Subfamily Buliminusinae Kobelt, 1880
- Eninae Woodward subfamily , 1903
- Family Cerastidae Wenz, 1923 (syn.Pachnodidae Steenberg, 1925)
- Wolverine snails family Enidae Woodward, 1903
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literature
- Philippe Bouchet & Jean-Pierre Rocroi: Part 2. Working classification of the Gastropoda . Malacologia, 47: 239-283, Ann Arbor 2005 ISSN 0076-2997
- Anatolij A. Schileyko: Treatise Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 2. Gastrocoptidae, Hypselostomatidae, Vertiginidae, Truncatellidae, Pachnodidae, Enidae, Sagdidae. Ruthenica, Supplement 2 (2): 129-261, Moscow 1998 ISSN 0136-0027
