Scientific name Urocyclidae Rank Family | ||
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March 6th 2015 urocyclidae counteracts a structured ploy
Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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- March 6th 2015 urocyclidae counteracts a structured ploy
- Distribution
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- Cladogram
- References
Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.
Distribution
The Urocyclidae are distributed in the Afrotropical Region, including Madagascar, the Comores and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea.
Taxonomy
The family Urocyclidae consists of 2 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), that follows classification of Urocyclinae by Van Goethem (1977):
Genera
Genera within the family Urocyclidae include:
Subfamily Urocyclinae
tribe Urocyclini
Tribe Dendrolimacini
Tribe Leptichnini
Tribe Upembellini
Subfamily Sheldoniinae
Unsorted:
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family to other families in the limacoid clade: