Milacidae
Family of gastropods
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Milacidae is a family of air-breathing, keeled, land slugs. These are shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Parmacelloidea.
| Milacidae | |
|---|---|
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| Tandonia budapestensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Parmacelloidea |
| Family: | Milacidae Ellis, 1926 |
| Diversity[1][2] | |
| 2 genera, about 50 species, less than 50 species | |
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution
The distribution of the Milacidae includes the western Palearctic region.[3]
Anatomy
In the Milacidae family, the number of haploid chromosomes ranges from 31 to 35 (according to the values in this table).[4]
Genera
Cladogram
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families in the limacoid clade:[3]
