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Streptaxidae

Leal, José H.

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Streptaxidae

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Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderStylommatophora
  5. FamilyStreptaxidae
Observations recorded26,938

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
906
With media
7
Family
Streptaxidae
Collections
PRI, UOMNH, CAS, MCZ, FMNH, UF
Recorded in
Mauritius, Kenya, Philippines, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, Palau, Myanmar

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Encyclopedic overview

19 sections
Contents
  • Distribution
  • Description
  • Taxonomy
  • 2005 taxonomy
  • 2010 taxonomy
  • Genera
  • Enneinae
  • Gulellinae
  • Marconiinae
  • Odontartemoninae
  • Orthogibbinae
  • Primigulellinae
  • Streptaxinae
  • Unsorted to subfamily
  • Synonyms
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Streptaxidae is a family of carnivorous air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.

Streptaxidae are monophyletic while all subfamilies and several genera are polyphyletic.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Streptaxidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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