Acochlidiidae

Acochlidiidae are a taxonomic family of shell-less freshwater gastropods (one of them Palliohedyle weberi lives in brackish water),^[1] aquatic gastropod mollusks within the clade Acochlidiacea.

Acochlidiidae
A live individual of Acochlidium fijiiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Acochlidiacea clade Hedylopsacea[1]
Family:	Acochlidiidae Küthe, 1935[2]
Diversity[1][3]
Altogether 3 genera and 6 species; 5 freshwater species, one in brackish waters.
Synonyms[1]
Palliohedylidae Rankin, 1979

2005 taxonomy

Acochlidiidae was classified as the only family within the superfamily Acochlidioidea Küthe, 1935 in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).^[4] Palliohedylidae was in turn classified as the only family within the superfamily Palliohedyloidea.^[4]

2010 taxonomy

Schrödl & Neusser (2010)^[1] redefined the taxonomy of Acochlidiacea in 2010, placing the family Acochlidiidae in the clade Hedylopsacea.^[1]

Genera

According to Schrödl & Neusser (2010),^[1] there are three genera in the family Acochlidiidae:^[1]

Acochlidium Strubell, 1892^[1][5]

• Acochlidium amboinense Strubell, 1892^[1][6]
• Acochlidium bayerfehlmanni Wawra, 1980^[1][6]
• Acochlidium fijiiensis Haynes & Kenchington, 1991^[1][7][8]

Palliohedyle Rankin, 1979^[1]

• Palliohedyle sutteri - synonym: Acochlidium sutteri Wawra^[1][9]
• Palliohedyle weberi - synonym: Acochlidium weberi Bergh, 1896^[1][6]

Strubellia Odhner, 1937^[1]

• Strubellia paradoxa (Strubell, 1892) - synonym: Acochlidium paradoxum Strubell^[1]
• Strubellia wawrai Brenzinger, Neusser, Jörger & Schrödl, 2011