Epiphragmophorinae is a

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of 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

Xanthonychidae Xanthonychidae is a family (biology), family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Xanthonychidae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879 ...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies. Shileyko (2004) listed 40 species within Epiphragmophorinae. There are about 65 recognized species within Epiphragmophorinae in 2017.

Anatomy

This family is defined by the absence of a

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. These snails have one dart apparatus with a stylophore (dart sac), and one or two mucous glands that are inserted on the dart sac and on the accessory sac, or at the base of the dart sac.

Genera

Genera within the family Epiphragmophorinae include: * '' Angrandiella'' Ancey, 1886Schileyko A. A. (2004). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs, Part 12: Bradybaenidae, Monadeniidae, Xanthonychidae, Epiphragmophoridae, Helminthoglyptidae, Elonidae, Humboldtianidae, Sphincterochilidae, Cochlicellidae". ''Ruthenica'', Supplement 2, Moscow. (ISSN 0136-0027) * '' Dinotropis'' Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1937 * '' Doeringina'' Ihering, 1929 * '' Epiphragmophora'' Doering, 1874 - the type genus of the family Epiphragmophoridae. It occurs from

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. * '' Minaselates'' Cuezzo & Pena, 2017 - with the only species '' Minaselates paradoxa'' Cuezzo & Pena, 2017 * '' Pilsbrya'' Ancey, 1887 - synonym: ''Poecilostola'' Ancey 1886

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