Cepolidae 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 ...

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 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 ...

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

Helicoidea Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order (taxonomy), order Stylommatophora. Taxonomy 2017 taxonomy and l ...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

Distribution of Cepolidae include

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and

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.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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Anatomy

This family is defined by the absence of the

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. Snails in this family have one dart apparatus, and one mucous gland on top of the dart sac. The sheath of the dart apparatus has two glands.

Taxonomy

This family is placed within the

clade In biology, a clade (), also known as a Monophyly, monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades are the fundamental unit of cladistics, a modern approach t ...

Stylommatophora Stylommatophora is an orderPhilippe Bouchet, Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hausdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, Alexander Nützel, Pavel Parkhaev, Michael Schrödl and Ellen E. Strong. 2017. Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of ...

within the clade

Eupulmonata Eupulmonata is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing gastropod molluscs. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are intertidal or inhabit coastal saltmarshes and mangroves. Possible synapomorphy of the group are gl ...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). In many textbooks and on many websites however this family is listed as the subfamily Cepolinae within the family Helminthoglyptidae. The name Cepolidae Ihering, 1909 is a

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for the family Cepolidae Rafinesque, 1815 (based on ''Cepola'' Linnaeus, 1766) a family of bandfishes in the superfamily Cepoloidea within the order

Perciformes Perciformes (), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. ''Perciformes'' means " perch-like". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters ( Percidae), and als ...

. The name of the gastropod family needs be submitted to the

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to resolve the

homonymy In linguistics, homonyms are words which are either; ''homographs''—words that mean different things, but have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation), or ''homophones''—words that mean different things, but have the same pronunciatio ...

Genera

Genera within the family Cepolidae include: * '' Bellacepolis'' Baker, 1943 * '' Cepolis'' Montfort, 1810 - type genus of the family Cepolidae * '' Coryda '' Albers, 1850 * '' Cysticopsis'' Mörch, 1852 * '' Dialeuca'' Albers, 1850 * '' Euclastaria'' Pilsbry, 1926 * '' Eurycampta'' Von Martens, 1860 * '' Guladentia'' Clench y Aguayo, 1951 * '' Hemitrochus'' Swainson, 1840 * '' Jeanneretia'' L. Pfeiffer, 1877 * '' Levicepolis'' Baker, 1943 * '' Plagioptycha'' L. Pfeiffer, 1855 * '' Setipellis'' Pilsbry, 1926 * '' Polymita '' Beck, 1837

References

Taxa named by Hermann von Ihering {{Pulmonata-stub