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Pleurodontidae
Sign in to savePleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyPleurodontidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,327
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Pleurodontidae
- Collections
- UF, FMNH, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Cuba, Philippines
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Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
This family is classified within the order Stylommatophora within the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pleurodontidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.