Scientific name Amphibolidae | Rank Family | |
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Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
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This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming veliger stage.
2005 taxonomy
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it was an only family within a superfamily Amphiboloidea in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.
2010 taxonomy
Jörger et al. (2010) have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.
Genera
Genera and species within the family Amphibolidae include:
References
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