Xanthonychidae
Sign in to saveXanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyXanthonychidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 150
- Family
- Xanthonychidae
- Collections
- CAS, UF, USNM, KU
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica, Belize, Bahamas
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- Parent taxon
- Helicoidea
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- Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.301252 - Averellia desidens (Rang, 1834) - Xanthonychidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
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Xanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
This family is within the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
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