Dorcasiidae
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| Dorcasiidae | |
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| Dorcasia alexandri Gray, 1838 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Informal group: | Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Acavoidea |
| Family: | Dorcasiidae Connolly, 1915[1] |
Dorcasiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]
The family Dorcasiidae has no subfamilies.[2]
Found in southern Africa.[3]
