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Limacinidae

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Description

The Limacinidae are a family of small sea snails, pteropods, pelagic marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Thecosomata (sea butterflies).

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limacinidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	6524	https://www.gbif.org/species/6524
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	60848	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=60848

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pteropoda : Limacinidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Thecosomata : Limacinidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
order	Opisthobranchia
order	Thecosomata	Blainville 1823
family	Limacinidae	Blainville 1823

Scientific Name

Limacinidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Limacinidae	family	belongs to Thecosomata	stated without evidence	Zorn, 1997
Limacinidae	family	belongs to Thecosomata	implied	Beesley, 1998
Limacinidae	family	belongs to Thecosomata	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Limacinidae	family	belongs to Thecosomata	stated without evidence	Wienrich and Janssen, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (5.6%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 47.8 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

P. L. Beesley. 1998. Mollusca: the southern synthesis. Fauna of Australia 5

Common Name(s)

Contravleugelslakken, ミジンウキマイマイ, Vingsnäckor

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limacinidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Agadina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Altaspiratella ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Chaduma genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chadumella genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Currylimacina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Embolus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Heliconoides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		76	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Limacina genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		149	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Pakistania ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	56.0 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Skaptotion ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	56.0 Ma Paleocene	47.8 Ma Eocene
Spirialis ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Striolimacina genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Thielea genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Limnacinidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pteropoda : Limnacinidae
Spirialidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pteropoda : Spirialidae
Spiratellidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Pteropoda : Spiratellidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1823	Limacinidae Blainville
1997	Limacinidae Zorn p. 34
1998	Limacinidae Beesley p. 942
2001	Limacinidae Todd
2007	Limacinidae Wienrich and Janssen p. 780

References

Beesley P. L. (1998) Mollusca: the southern synthesis, Fauna of Australia 5

Zorn I. (1997) Holoplanktonic gastropods from the early Messinian of the Heraklion Basin (Crete, Greece), Contributions to Tertiary and Quaternary Geology 34 1-2, 31-45

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Wienrich G., Janssen R. (2007) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 4 Gastropoda ab Mitridae, Backhuys Publishers BV Leiden 4, 643-954

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47(1-2): 1-397. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

van der Spoel S. (1967) Euthecosomata, a group with remarkable developmental stages (Gastropoda, Pteropoda). Gorinchem: Noorduijn en Zoon. 378 pp. [20 November 1967] - via World Register of Marine Species

Gärdenfors, Ulf, Hall, Ragnar, Hallingbäck, Tomas, Hansson, Hans G. & Hedström, Lars (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj. ArtDatabanken Rapporterar 5, ArtDatabanken, Uppsala. (reviderad excelfil med svenska djurfamiljer). - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526. - via World Register of Marine Species

Corse E., Rampal J., Cuoc C., Pech N., Perez Y. & Gilles A. (2013) Phylogenetic analysis of Thecosomata Blainville, 1824 (holoplanktonic Opisthobranchia) using morphological and molecular data. PLoS ONE 8(4): e59439. - via World Register of Marine Species

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