Azecidae is a
family
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of small and very small 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 ...
s,
terrestrial
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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 ...
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 ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the superfamily
Azecoidea .
[MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Azecidae H. Watson, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933796 on 2021-03-13]
Families
* ''
Azeca''
J. Fleming, 1828
* ''
Cryptazeca''
de Folin & Bérillon, 1877
* ''
Gomeziella''
Cianfanelli, Bodon, Giusti & Manganelli, 2018
* ''
Gomphroa''
Westerlund, 1903
* ''
Hypnocarnica''
Cianfanelli & Bodon, 2018
* ''
Hypnophila''
Bourguignat, 1858
References
* Watson, H. (1920). The affinities of Pyramidula, Patulastra, Acanthinula, and Vallonia. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 14 (1): 6-30, pl. 1–2. London
* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
External links
Manganelli, G., Barbato, D., Pieńkowska, J. R., Benocci, A.; Lesicki, A. & Giusti, F. (2019). Unravelling the tangle of the azecid land snails: a survey on the supraspecific systematics based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Orthurethra). Folia Malacologica. 27(4): 253-291
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Gastropod families
Helicina (suborder)