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Chronidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Superfamily
  
Gastrodontoidea

Rank
  
Family

Class
  
Gastropoda

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Similar
  
Dyakiidae, Urocyclidae, Ariophantidae, Helicarionidae, Boettgerillidae

Chronidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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Distribution

Distribution of Chronidae include eastern-Palearctic, Ethiopian, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesian.

Genera

Genera within the family Chronidae include:

  • Chronos Robson, 1914 - type genus of the family Chronidae
  • Nesokaliella Gerlach - endemic to the Seychelles
  • Nesokaliella minuta Baker
  • Nesokaliella intermedia Pfeiffer

    • Cladogram

    The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family with the other families within the limacoid clade:

    References

    Chronidae Wikipedia
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