Parmacellidae is a
family
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of air-breathing land
slugs,
terrestrial
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pulmonate gastropod mollusk
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s within the superfamily
Parmacelloidea
Parmacelloidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora and the informal group Pulmonata. These are limacoid or keelback slugs.
Families
Families within the super ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies (according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Slugs in this family make and use
love darts
A love dart (also known as a gypsobelum, shooting darts, or just as darts) is a sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are both formed and stored internally in a dart sac. These ...
made of
chitin.
Distribution
The distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western
Palearctic,
and ranges from the
Canary Islands and Europe to
Afghanistan
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.
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Genera
Genera within family Parmacellidae include:
* ''
Candaharia'' Godwin-Austen, 1888
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** subgenus '' Levanderiella'' Schileyko, 2007[Schileyko A. A. (2007). "''Levanderiella'', a new name for ''Levanderia'' Likharev et Wiktor, 1980 (Pulmonata, Parmacellidae)". ''Ruthenica'' 17(1-2): 84]
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* '' Cryptella'' Webb & Berthelot, 1833[Parmacellidae](_blank)
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* '' Parmacella'' Cuvier, 1804
Cladogram
The following cladogram
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shows the phylogenic
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relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade
The Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina
Distribution
The original ancestral area of limacoid families is thought to b ...
:[Hausdorf B. (2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". '' Journal of Biogeography'' 27(2): 379-390. ]
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References
Further reading
* Schileyko A. A. (2003). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate mollusks. 10. Ariophantidae, Ostracolethaidae, Ryssotidae, Milacidae, Dyakiidae, Staffordiidae, Gastrodontidae, Zonitidae, Daudebardiidae, Parmacellidae". ''Ruthenica'', Supplement 2. 1309–1466.
External links
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