Elonidae

Elonidae
A live adult and a juvenile of Elona quimperiana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Elonidae Gittenberger, 1977[1]

Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

The family Elonidae consists of two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

• Eloninae Gittenberger, 1977
• Klikiinae H. Nordsieck, 1986[2]

Genera

Genera in the family Elonidae include:

• † Cyrtochilus F. Sandberger, 1875
• † Eurystrophe Gude, 1911
• †Joossia Pfeffer, 1930
• † Lychnopsis Vidal, 1917
• † Megalocochlea Wenz, 1919
• † Papillotopsis H. Binder, 2017
• † Puisseguria Schlickum, 1975

Eloninae

• The type genus is Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. It is a monotypic genus, with only one species: Elona quimperiana
• † Galactochiloides Wenz, 1919
• Norelona Nordsieck, 1986
  • Norelona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)
• † Tropidomphalus Pilsbry, 1895

Klikiinae

• † Apula C. R. Boettger, 1909
• † Klikia Pilsbry, 1895[3]
• † Pseudochloritis C. R. Boettger, 1909

Synonyms

• Sterna Albers, 1850: synonym of Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 ((Invalid: junior homonym of Sterna Linnaeus, 1758 [Aves]))
• † Steklovia Schlickum & Strauch, 1972: synonym of † Apula C. R. Boettger, 1909 † (junior subjective synonym)

References

1. Gittenberger E. (1979) "On Elona (Pulmonata, Eloniadae fam. nov.)". Malacologia 18(1-2), Sixth European Malacological Congress, Amsterdam, 139-145.
2. (in German) Nordsieck H. (1986) "Das System der tertiären Helicoidea Mittel- und Westeuropas (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)". Heldia, 1(4): 109-120, plates 15-17, description at page 116.
3. Tryon G. W. (1894) Manual of Conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Second series: Pulmonata. Volume 9. Helicidae - Volume VII. Continued by H. A. Pilsbry, page 289.