Pleurodontidae
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| Pleurodontidae | |
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| 1868 painting of Pleurodonte bainbridgii | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Pleurodontidae H. von Ihering, 1912 |
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Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.[1]
This family is classified within the order Stylommatophora within the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2] This family has no subfamilies.[2]
The family Pleurodontidae includes some American taxa that used to be included within the Australasian family Camaenidae, a taxon whose monophyly was in doubt.
Pleurodontids are defined by a missing diverticulum. The stimulatory organ is equally missing.
