Family EULIMIDAE Philippi, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eulimacea Philippi, R. A. 1853. Handbuch der Conchyliologie und Malacozoologie. Halle : Anton 547 pp. [194].

  Type genus:

   Eulima Risso, 1826.
• Aclidae Sars, G.O. 1878. Bidrag til kundskaben om norges arktiske fauna: I. Mollusca regionis arcticae norvegiae. Oversigt over de i norges arktiske region forekommende bløddyr. Christiania : Brøgger xiii, 466 pp., Tab. I–XVIII. [195].

  Type genus:

   Aclis Lovén, 1846.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [346, 378]

Introduction

Specimens in the WAM thought to represent the genus Hoenselaaria Moolenbeek, 2009 have been found in Western Australia, but have not been identified to species level.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

EULIMIDAE: Eusetia Cotton, 1944 [The five species of Eusetia listed by Cotton (1944) as occurring in Australian waters are now all referred to different genera and families] — Cotton, B.C. 1944. Recent Australian species of the family Rissoidae (Mollusca). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 68(2): 286-314 [306]

EULIMIDAE: Stilifer astericola Broderip, 1832 [misidentification. Does not occur in Australia; restricted to Galapagos and western Central America] — Sowerby, G.B. (1st) & Broderip, W.J. 1832. Characters of new species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1832(2): 25-202 [60]; Brazier, J. 1877. Continuation of the Mollusca of the Chevert Expedition, with new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(4): 283-301 [285-286]

General References

Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47: 1–397 [254]

Moolenbeek, R.G. 2009. Hoenselaaria, a new genus with the description of a new species (Gastropoda: Eulimidae) from the Indo-Pacific. Miscellanea Malacologica 3(4): 71-75 [72]

Smith, B.J. 1998. Family Aclididae. pp. 816-817 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234.

Smith, B.J. 1998. Family Eulimidae. pp. 817 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5(Part B) pp. vi–viii, 565–1234. [817]

Takano, T. & Kano, Y. 2014. Molecular phylogenetic investigations of the relationships of the echinoderm-parasite family Eulimidae within Hypsogastropoda (Mollusca). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 258–269

Warén, A. 1984. A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies (Supplement) 13: 1-96 [Date published 27 February, 1984] [2]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [282]

History of changes