Cochliopidae
| Cochliopidae | |
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| A live individual of Antrobia culveri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: |
Cochliopidae Tryon, 1866 |
| Diversity | |
| 246 freshwater species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Semisalsinae Giusti & Pezzoli, 1980 |
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clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Semisalsinae Giusti & Pezzoli, 1980
Cochliopidae is a family of small freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks. Paludestrina d'Orbigny, 1840 is an archaic synonym, and has been placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Names by ICZN Opinion 2202.
This family is in the superfamily Truncatelloidea and in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Cochliopidae snails are characterized by sharp, elongated spire-like structures, and can be found in rivers or brackish water.
The family Cochliopidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
Liu et al. (2001) have recognized 34 genera with more than 260 species within the subfamily Cochliopinae.
Strong et al. (2008) have recognized 246 freshwater species within Cochliopidae.
Genera within the family Cochliopidae include:
subfamily Cochliopinae
subfamily Littoridininae
subfamily Semisalsinae - there are three genera in the subfamily Semisalsinae
subfamily ? (either Cochliopinae or Littoridininae)
A cladogram based on sequences of mitochondrial (COI) genes showing phylogenic relations of species within Cochliopidae:
Heleobops docimus, Heleobops dalmatica
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