Parmacellidae
{{Short description|Family of gastropods}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent
| taxon = Parmacellidae
| image = Parmacella valenciennii.jpg
| image_caption = Parmacella valenciennii
| image2 = Cryptella canariensis.jpg
| image2_caption = Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis
| authority = P. Fischer, 1856 (1855)
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms =
Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)Schileyko A. A. (2003). "On the conservation of the name Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856". Ruthenica 13(2): 167-168. [http://www.ruthenica.com/documents/Vol13_Schileyko_167-168.pdf PDF].
}}
Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.
Distribution
The distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western Palearctic, and ranges from the Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan.[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/family?id=871 "Family summary for Parmacellidae"]. AnimalBase, last modified 21 February 2009, accessed 1 September 2010.
Genera
Genera within family Parmacellidae include:
- Candaharia Godwin-Austen, 1888Kantor Yu I., Vinarski M. V., Schileyko A. A. & Sysoev A. V. (published online on December 22, 2009). "CATALOGUE OF THE CONTINENTAL MOLLUSKS OF RUSSIA AND ADJACENT TERRITORIES". [http://www.ruthenica.com/documents/Continental_Russian_molluscs_ver2-3.pdf Version 2.3.]
- subgenus Levanderiella Schileyko, 2007Schileyko A. A. (2007). "Levanderiella, a new name for Levanderia Likharev et Wiktor, 1980 (Pulmonata, Parmacellidae)". Ruthenica 17(1-2): 84. [http://www.ruthenica.com/documents/Vol17_Schileyko_84_abstract.pdf PDF].
- Cryptella Webb & Berthelot, 1833[https://web.archive.org/web/20110604050437/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=275219 Parmacellidae]. Fauna Europaea, accessed 19 November 2009.
- Parmacella Cuvier, 1804 - type genus
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade: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}}, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2656267 JSTOR].
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|label1=limacoid clade
|1={{clade
|label1=Staffordioidea
|2={{clade
|1={{clade
|label1=Dyakioidea
|1=Dyakiidae
|label2=Gastrodontoidea
|2={{clade
|2={{clade
|1=Chronidae
|2={{clade
|1=Euconulidae
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|3={{clade
|2=Oxychilidae
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|2={{clade
|label1=Parmacelloidea
|1={{clade
|2=Parmacellidae
|3=Milacidae
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|2={{clade
|1={{clade
|label1=Zonitoidea
|1=Zonitidae
|label2=Helicarionoidea
|2={{clade
|2={{clade
|2=Urocyclidae
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}}
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|label2=Limacoidea
|2={{clade
|1=Vitrinidae
|2={{clade
|2={{clade
|1=Limacidae
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References
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Further reading
{{Commons category|Parmacellidae}}
- Schileyko A. A. (2003). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. 10. Ariophantidae, Ostracolethaidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae". Ruthenica, Supplement 2. 1309–1466.
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