Cochlicellini is a

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of small air-breathing

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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 ...

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s in the family

Geomitridae Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea Helicoidea is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Taxonomic rank, superfamily of air-b ...

(superfamily

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). According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, it was considered as a separate family, Cochlicellidae, within the superfamily Helicoidea.

Genera

The type genus is '' Cochlicella.'' Férussac, 1821 Genera in the tribe Cochlicellini include: * '' Cochlicella'' Férussac, 1821 ** subgenus '' Prietocella'' Schileyko & Menkhorst, 1997 * '' Monilearia'' Mousson, 1872 * ''

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'' W. Hartmann, 1842 * '' Ripkeniella'' Hutterer & E. Gittenberger, 1998

References

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