Chronidae

Chronidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Trochomorphoidea within the superorder Eupulmonata. [1]

Chronidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Trochomorphoidea
Family: Chronidae
Thiele, 1931
Genera

See text

Synonyms[1]

Ryssotidae Schileyko, 2003

Distribution

Distribution of Chronidae include eastern-Palearctic, Ethiopian, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesian.[2]

Genera

Genera within the family Chronidae include:

  • Antinous Robson, 1914
  • Atrichoconcha Bartsch, 1942
  • Bekkochlamys Habe, 1958
  • Ceratochlamys Habe, 1946
  • Chronos Robson, 1914 - type * of the family Chronidae
  • Danjochlamys Y. Azuma & M. Azuma, 1993
  • Exrhysota H. B. Baker, 1941
  • Gastrodontella Möllendorff, 1901
  • Glyptobensonia Möllendorff, 1894
  • Hemiglypta Möllendorff, 1893
  • Hemiglyptopsis Thiele, 1931
  • Hemitrichiella Zilch, 1956
  • Japanochlamys Habe, 1946
  • Kaliella W. T. Blanford, 1863
  • Lamarckiella Möllendorff, 1898
  • Lepidotrichia Bartsch, 1942
  • Macroceras C. Semper, 1870
  • Nesokaliella Gerlach, 1998 - endemic to the Seychelles
    • Nesokaliella minuta Baker
    • Nesokaliella intermedia Pfeiffer
  • Nipponochlamys Habe, 1945
  • Otesiopsis Habe, 1946
  • Parakaliella Habe, 1946
  • Pararyssota Bartsch, 1938
  • Platymma Tomlin, 1938
  • Ponapea H. B. Baker, 1941
  • Pseudhelicarion Möllendorff, 1894
  • Pseudokaliella Godwin-Austen, 1910
  • Ryssota Albers, 1850
  • Striokaliella Thiele, 1931
  • Takemasaia Azuma & Minato, 1976
  • Trichobensonia Möllendorff, 1902
  • Trochochlamys Habe, 1946
  • Trukrhysa H. B. Baker, 1941
  • Vitrinoidea C. Semper, 1873
  • Vitrinopsis C. Semper, 1873
  • Yamatochlamys Habe, 1945
Synonyms
  • Hemitrichia Möllendorff, 1888: synonym of Hemitrichiella Zilch, 1956 (Invalid: Junior homonym of Hemitrichia Rostafinski, 1873 [Myxomycetes]; Hemitrichiella is a replacement name)
  • Rhysota Martens, 1860: synonym of Ryssota Albers, 1850 (unjustified emendation of the original name)
  • Rhyssota auct.: synonym of Ryssota Albers, 1850 (invalid: unjustified emendation of the original name)

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family with the other families within the limacoid clade:[2]

 limacoid clade 
 Staffordioidea 

Staffordiidae

 
 
 
 Dyakioidea 

Dyakiidae

 
 Gastrodontoidea 
 

Pristilomatidae

 
 
 

Chronidae

 
 
 

Euconulidae

 
 

Trochomorphidae

 
 
 
 

Gastrodontidae

 
 

Oxychilidae

 
 
 
 
 
 
 Parmacelloidea 
 

Trigonochlamydidae

 
 

Parmacellidae

 
 

Milacidae

 
 
 
 
 Zonitoidea 

Zonitidae

 
 Helicarionoidea 
 

Helicarionidae

 
 
 

Ariophantidae

 
 

Urocyclidae

 
 
 
 
 Limacoidea 
 

Vitrinidae

 
 
 

Boettgerillidae

 
 
 

Limacidae

 
 

Agriolimacidae

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Chronidae Thiele, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994726 on 2021-02-22
  2. Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  • 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.


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