Family Ampullariidae Gray 1824 (apple snail)

Gastropoda - Architaenioglossa - Ampullariidae

Synonym: Pilidae Preston 1915 [objective synonym]

Parent taxon: Ampullarioidea according to P. Bouchet et al. 2005

See also Novas et al. 2019, Olsson 1931 and Ponder and Warén 1988

Sister taxon: Naricopsinidae

Subtaxa: Afropominae Ampullariinae Asolene Coronatica Lanistes Mesolanistes Pictavia Pila Pomacea Pseudoceratodes

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Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (2 collections), Egypt (1), Kenya (1), Sudan (8), Thailand (2), United States (7: Florida)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Uganda (2)

• Pliocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Indonesia (2), Malawi (2), Tanzania (4), Uganda (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), Tanzania (3), Uganda (36)

• Miocene of Brazil (3), Kenya (3), Pakistan (1), Peru (1)

• Oligocene of Oman (6), Peru (1)

• Eocene of Egypt (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (3)

• Paleocene of China (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Egypt (2), Germany (2), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Colorado)

• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (5), Israel (2), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Tanzania (1)

• Triassic of Austria (1)

Total: 118 collections including 156 occurrences

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