Velutininae Gray 1840 ...

• Main Authors: Fassio, Giulia, Stefani, Matteo, Russini, Valeria, Buge, Barbara, Bouchet, Philippe, Treneman, Nancy, Malaquias, Manuel António E., Schiaparelli, Stefano, Modica, Maria Vittoria, Oliverio, Marco
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• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Littorinimorpha; Velutinidae; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7814309; https://zenodo.org/record/7814309

Subfamily Velutininae Velutininae are distributed in all Arctic and temperate areas. They have the same radular formula as Marseniopsinae and Hainotinae (2:1:1:1:2), but with a larger base on the lateral and central teeth. In this group, the jaws have a characteristic appearance, being composed of scale-like elements (as in Marseniopsinae) presenting a denticulation on the masticatory side (Fig. 11A, M). Velutininae were thought to include all velutinid species with a shell completely or partly exposed (some with a small fissure in the centre of the dorsum). However, we found at least nine additional species, belonging to two new genera in subfamily Lamellariinae and one in Marseniopsinae, that possess a small fissure on the dorsal mantle, showing that this morphological character is not diagnostic at the subfamily level. ... : Published as part of Fassio, Giulia, Stefani, Matteo, Russini, Valeria, Buge, Barbara, Bouchet, Philippe, Treneman, Nancy, Malaquias, Manuel António E., Schiaparelli, Stefano, Modica, Maria Vittoria & Oliverio, Marco, 2023, Neither slugs nor snails: a molecular reappraisal of the gastropod family Velutinidae, pp. 924-964 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 197 (4) on page 943, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac091, http://zenodo.org/record/7814306 ...