Elonidae

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Helicoidea Rank Family		Class Gastropoda Phylum Mollusca

Similar Humboldtianidae, Cochlicellidae, Epiphragmophoridae, Escargot de Quimp, Helicodontidae

Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

The family Elonidae consists of two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Eloninae Gittenberger, 1977

Klikiinae H. Nordsieck, 1986

Genera in the family Elonidae include:

Eloninae

The type genus is Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. It is a monotypic genus, with only one species: Elona quimperiana

Norelona Nordsieck, 1986

Norelona pyrenaica (Draparnaud, 1805)

Klikiinae

† Klikia Pilsbry, 1895

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