Ancylidae
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Ancylidae are a taxonomic family of small, freshwater, air-breathing limpets. In other words they are aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
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 when they are unable to reach the surface for air.
Genera within the family Ancylidae
Type genus is Ancylus Müller, 1774
Subfamily Ancylinae
- Ancylus O. F. Müller, 1774
- Pseudancylus
- Rhodacmaea Walker, 1917
- Rhodocephala
Subfamily Ferrissiinae
- Ferrissia Walker, 1903
Subfamily ?
- Gundlachia Pfeiffer, 1849
- Hebetoncylus Pilsbry, 1914
- Laevapex Walker, 1903
- Rhodacme Walker, 1917
References
- Ancylidae (TSN 76568). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- Good images and info at [1]
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Ancylidae". Image Credit.
