Caryodidae is a
taxonomic
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family 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 gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
terrestrial 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 includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the superfamily
Acavoidea (according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family is
endemic to eastern
Australia
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.
[Family CARYODIDAE](_blank)
. Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 30 September 2010.
This family has no subfamilies (according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family was previously treated as a subfamily of the family
Acavidae.
Genera
The family Caryodidae has no subfamilies.
Genera and species within this family include:
* ''
Anoglypta'' Martens, 1860
* ''
Brazieresta'' Iredale, 1933
* ''
Caryodes'' Albers, 1850
- type genus
* ''
Hedleyella'' Iredale, 1914
* ''
Pandofella'' Iredale, 1933
* ''
Pedinogyra'' Albers, 1860
** ''
Pedinogyra allani'' Iredale, 1937
** ''
Pedinogyra effossa'' Iredale, 1937
** ''
Pedinogyra hayii'' (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
** ''
Pedinogyra minor'' (Mousson, 1869)
** ''
Pedinogyra hayii'' (Reeve, 1852)
** ''
Pedinogyra rotabilis'' (Reeve, 1852)
* ''
Pygmipanda'' Iredale, 1933
includes ''
Pygmipanda atomata''
References
Further reading
* Murphy M. J. (2002). "Observations on the behaviour of the Australian land snail ''Hedleyella falconeri'' (Grey, 1834) (Pulmonata : Caryodidae) using the spool-and-line tracking technique". ''Molluscan Research'' 22(2): 149-164.
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