Acavidae is a

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of air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on o ...

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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s in the superfamily

Rhytidoidea The Rhytidoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the suborder Helicina.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Rhytidoidea Pilsbry, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spe ...

Anatomy

In this family, the number of

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s lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: ''Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology''. in Barker G. M. (ed.):
The biology of terrestrial molluscs
'. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

Genera

The family Acavidae has no subfamilies. Genera in the family Acavidae include:http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acavidae cited 11 October 2008 * '' Acavus'' Montfort, 1810 * ''

Ampelita ''Ampelita'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Acavidae.MolluscaBase (2018). Ampelita H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org ...

'' Beck, 1837 * '' Embertoniphanta'' Groh & Poppe, 2002 * '' Eurystyla'' Ancey, 1887 * '' Helicophanta'' Férussac, 1821 * '' Oligospira'' Ancey, 1887 * † ''Pebasiconcha'' Wesselingh & Gittenberger, 1999 - with the only species † '' Pebasiconcha immanis'' Wesselingh & Gittenberger, 1999Wesselingh F. P. (2006). "Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia". ''

Scripta Geologica ''Scripta Geologica'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes on vertebrate and invertebrate palaeontology, palaeobotany/palynology, stratigraphy, petrology, and mineralogy, including gemmology with a focus on systematics. It is publis ...

'' 133: 19-290. Figure 274
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/ref> * '' Reticulapex'' Emberton & Pearce, 2000 * '' Stylodonta'' De Cristofori & Jan, 1832 ;Genera brought into synonymy: * ''Acavella'' Jousseaume, 1894: synonym of '' Oligospira'' Ancey, 1887 * ''Columplica'' W. Hartmann, 1843: synonym of '' Stylodonta'' De Cristofori & Jan, 1832 * ''Poecilostylus'' Pilsbry, 1890: synonym of '' Eurystyla'' Ancey, 1887 * ''Stylodon'' H. Beck, 1837: synonym of '' Stylodonta'' De Cristofori & Jan, 1832

References

External links

* Gastropod families {{Acavidae-stub