Spelaeodiscidae is a
family
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of 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 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
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s in the superfamily
Pupilloidea (according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Spelaeodiscidae has no subfamilies (according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera
Genera within the family Spelaeodiscidae include:
* ''
Klemmia'' Gittenberger, 1969
["Spelaeodiscinae"](_blank)
Fauna Europaea, accessed 5 April 2011.
* ''
Spelaeodiscus'' Brusina, 1886 -
type genus of the family Spelaeodiscidae
* ''
Virpazaria'' Gittenberger, 1969
References
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