Melanopsidae

Melanopsidae Temporal range: 90–recent Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N [1]
A live Melanopsis praemorsa
A live Esperiana daudebartii thermalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Melanopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854[2]
Diversity[4]
about 25-50 extant freshwater species, several hundreds of fossil species and subspecies[3]
Synonyms
Stomatopsinae Stache, 1889[5] Amphimelaniinae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1891[6] Fagotiinae Starobogatov, 1992[7]

Melanopsidae, common name melanopsids, is a family of freshwater gastropods in the clade Sorbeoconcha.[8] Species in this family are native to southern and eastern Europe, northern Africa, parts of the Middle East, New Zealand, and freshwater streams of some large South Pacific islands.[9]

These snails first appeared in the Late Cretaceous and are closely related to Potamididae. As well as unidirectional evolutionary change from one species to the next over time, the process of hybridization plays a major role in the appearance of new Melanopsidae species.[1]

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Melanopsidae has no subfamilies.[8]

Genera

Genera in the family Melanopsidae include:

• Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877[10] - synonym: Fagotia Bourguignat, 1884[8][11][12]
• Holandriana Bourguignat, 1884[10] - synonym: Amphimelania P. Fischer, 1885[8][11][13]
  • Holandriana holandrii (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)[10][14] or Amphimelania holandrii (C. Pfeiffer, 1828)[15]
• † Megalonoda Kollmann, 1984[16]
• Melanopsis Férussac, 1807 - type genus of the family Melanopsidae[8][11][10]
• Microcolpia Bourguignat, 1884[17]
• † Pseudobellardia Cox, 1931[11]
• † Pseudofagotia Anistratenko, 1993[18]
• † Stomatopsis Stache, 1871[8][11]
• † Stilospirula Rovereto, 1899 - synonyms: Stylospirula Rovereto, 1899[11][19]
• † Turripontica Anistratenko, 1993[20]
• Zemelanopsis Finlay, 1927[21]
  • Zemelanopsis trifasciata (Gray, 1843)[21]

References

1. Bandel K. (2000). "Speciation among the Melanopsidae (Caenogastropoda). Special emphasis to the Melanopsidae of the Pannonian Lake at Pontian time (Late Miocene) and the Pleistocene and Recent of Jordan". Mitt. Geol.-Paläont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg, Heft 84.
2. Adams H. & Adams A. (1854). The genera of Recent Mollusca 1: 309.
3. Neubauer T. A., Harzhauser M., Mandic O., Georgopoulou E. & Kroh A. (2016). " Paleobiogeography and historical biogeography of the non-marine caenogastropod family Melanopsidae". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 444: 124–143. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.017.
4. Strong E. E., Gargominy O., Ponder W. F. & Bouchet P. (2008). "Global Diversity of Gastropods (Gastropoda; Mollusca) in Freshwater". Hydrobiologia 595: 149-166. hdl:10088/7390 doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9012-6.
5. Stache (1889). Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 13(1): 90.
6. Fischer P. & Crosse (1891). Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale. Recherches zoologiques (7)2(12): 312.
7. Starobogatov (1992). In: Starobogatov, Alexenko & Levina Biulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody, Otdel Biologicheskii new ser. 97(3): 58.
8. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
9. Banarescu P. (1990). Zoogeography of Fresh Waters Vol. 1, General Distribution and Dispersal of Freshwater Animals. AULA-Verlag Wiesbaden.
10. Glöer P. (2002). Die Süßwassergastropoden Nord- und Mitteleuropas. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 326 pp., ISBN 3-925919-60-0, page 190-194.
11. "Melanopsidae". The Paleobiology Database, accessed 26 June 2011.
12. Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Esperiana Bourguignat, 1877. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=754674 on 2017-11-26
13. Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bank, R.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Holandriana Bourguignat, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738624 on 2017-11-26
14. "Species summary for Holandriana holandrii". AnimalBase, last modified 30 August 2010, accessed 26 June 2011.
15. "Amphimelania holandrii (C. Pfeiffer 1828)". Fauna Europaea, accessed 26 June 2011.
16. Neubauer, Thomas A. (2017). Megalonoda Kollmann, 1984 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1035571 on 2017-11-26
17. Neubauer, Thomas A. (2016). Microcolpia Bourguignat, 1884. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820468 on 2017-11-26
18. Neubauer, Thomas A. (2017). Pseudofagotia Anistratenko, 1993 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820489 on 2017-11-26
19. Neubauer, Thomas A.; Bouchet, P. (2017). Stilospirula Rovereto, 1899 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=754681 on 2017-11-26
20. Neubauer, Thomas A. (2017). Turripontica Anistratenko, 1993 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820490 on 2017-11-26
21. Bandel K. (2006). "Families of the Cerithioidea and related superfamilies (Palaeo-Caenogastropoda; Mollusca) from the Triassic to the Recent characterized by protoconch morphology - including the description of new taxa". Freiberger Forschungshefte C 511: 59-138. PDF^[permanent dead link‍].

Further reading

• (in German) Glaubrecht M. (1996). Evolutionsökologie und Systematik am Beispiel von Süß- und Brackwasserschnecken (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea): Ontogenese-Strategien, Paläontologische Befunde und Zoogeographie. Backhuys, Leiden.

External links

• Thomas A. Neubauer - "A nomenclator of extant and fossil taxa of the Melanopsidae (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea)" ; 2016, ZooKeys