Aporrhaidae, common name

Common name

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 the pelican's foot snails, is a taxonomic

Taxonomy

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 family of sea snail

Snail

Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s. The taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

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 categorizes Aporrhaidae as marine

Ocean

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 gastropod

Gastropoda

The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca. The class Gastropoda includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to quite large...

 mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha

Littorinimorpha

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Aporrhaidae are commercially important, especially in traditional fisheries.

Description

Aporrhaidae have a large lip with finger-like extensions, and a small operculum. They do not have movable eyes. Instead, their eyes are fixed at the base of each tentacle.

Subfamilies

Subfamilies in the family Aporrhaidae include:

• Aporrhainae Gray, 1850 - synonym: Chenopidae Deshayes, 1865
• Arrhoginae Popenoe, 1983 - synonyms: Alariidae Koken, 1889 (inv.); Dicrolomatidae Korotkov, 1992
• † Harpagonidae Pchelintsev, 1963
• † Perissopterinae Korotkov, 1992 - synonym: Struthiopterinae Zinsmeister & Griffin, 1995
• † Spinigerinae Korotkov, 1992 (inv.)

Genera

Genera within the family Aporrhaidae include:

subfamily Aporrhainae:

• Aporrhais
  Aporrhais
  Aporrhais is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae and the superfamily Stromboidea. The genus is known from the Cretaceous to the recent periods.- Species :This genus contains the following species:...
  
  Da Costa, 1778 - synonym: Chenopus - type genus
  Type genus
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   of the family Aporrhaidae
• † Toarctocera Gründel, Nützel & Schulbert, 2009 - type species: Rostellaria subpunctata - Toarctocera subpunctata (von Munster in Goldfuss, 1826–1844)

(unsorted to subfamilies):

• Alarimella Saul, 1998
• Anchura Conrad, 1860
• Antarctohoges Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992
• Araeodactylus Harris & Burrows, 1891
• Arrhoges
  Arrhoges
  Arrhoges is a monospecific genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae and the superfamily Stromboidea. - Species :This genus contains the following species:* Arrhoges occidentalis...
  
  Gabb, 1868
• Auriala Hacobjan, 1976
• Austroaporrhais Zinsmeister & Griffin, 1995
• Bicorempterus Gründel, 2001
• Ceratosiphon Gill, 1870
• Cultrigera Böhm, 1885
• † Cuphosolenus
  Cuphosolenus
  Cuphosolenus is a genus of extinct small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Aporrhaidae and the superfamily Stromboidea, known from the Jurassic and lower Cretaceous periods...
  
  Piette, 1876
• Cuphotifer Piette, 1876
• Cyclomolops Gabb, 1868
• Diarthema Piette, 1864
• Dicroloma Gabb, 1868
• Digitolabrum Cossmann, 1904
• Dimorphosoma Gardner, 1875
• Drepanocheilus Meek, 1864
• Graciliala Sohl, 1960
• Goniocheila Gabb, 1868
• Helicaulax Gabb, 1868
• Hemichenopus Steinmann & Wilckens, 1908
• Kangilioptera Rosenkrantz, 1970
• Kaunhowenia Abdel Gawad, 1986
• Latiala Sohl, 1960
• Lispodesthes White, 1875
• Maussenetia Cossmann, 1904
• Mexopus Kiel & Perrilliat, 2001
• Monocuphus Piette, 1876
• Perissopter Tate, 1865
• Peruchilus Olsson, 1931
• Pietteia Cossmann, 1904
• Platyoptera Conrad, 1855
• Pseudanchura Kollmann, 2005
• Pterocerella Meek, 1864
• Pugioptera Pchelincev, 1953
• Strombopugnellus Koch, 1911
• Struthiochenopus Zinsmeister & Griffin, 1995
• Struthioptera Finlay & Marwick, 1937
• Teneposita Loch, 1989
• † Tessarolax
  Tessarolax
  Tessarolax is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks which lived from the Cretaceous to the Paleocene in Europe, North America, and Madagascar.-Sources:* Fossils by David Ward...
  
  Gabb, 1864
• Tibiaporrhais Elder, 1990
• Trilemma Blagovetshenskiy & Shumilkin, 2006
• Tulochilus Finlay & Marwick, 1937
• Tundora Stephenson, 1941
• Ueckeritzella Gründel, 1998
• Wateletia Cossmann, 1889

External links

• Gastropoda Stromboidea - Ulrich Wieneke and Han Stoutjesdijk