Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Gastrodontoidea Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Scientific name Trochomorphidae Rank Family | |
Similar Urocyclidae, Dyakiidae, Euconulidae, Ariophantidae, Helicarionidae | ||
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (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 Trochomorphidae includes eastern-Palearctic, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesia.
Anatomy
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 Trochomorphidae include:
Some authors place the following two genera in this family, instead of in the family Zonitidae.
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade: