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Helicodontidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Family

Superfamily
  
Helicoidea

Higher classification
  
Helicoidea

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Similar
  
Gastropods, Molluscs, Helicodonta obvoluta, Oxychilidae, Trissexodontidae

Helicodontidae 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).

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Taxonomy

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

Subfamilies and genera

There are two subfamilies in the family Helicodontidae.

The type genus is Helicodonta Férussac, 1821.

  • subfamily Helicodontinae Kobelt, 1904 - synonym: Gonostomatinae Kobelt, 1904, Drepanostomatini Schileyko, 1991
  • Atenia Gittenberger, 1968
  • Darderia Altaba, 2006
  • Drepanostoma Porro, 1836
  • Falkneria H. Nordsieck, 1989
  • Helicodonta Férussac, 1821
  • Soosia Hesse, 1918
  • subfamily Lindholmiolinae Schileyko, 1978
  • Lindholmiola Hesse, 1931

    • References

    Helicodontidae Wikipedia
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