Rank Family | Class Gastropoda | |
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Gastrodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Contents
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution
The distribution of the Gastrodontidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical and Hawaii.
Anatomy
Some snail species in this family use love darts made of cartilage.
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).
Genera
Genera within the family include:
Cladogram
A cladogram showing phylogenic relations of families in the limacoid clade:
References
Gastrodontidae Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA