Sagdidae
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| Sagdidae | |
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| Two adult shells and one juvenile shell of Sagda alligans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Sagdoidea |
| Family: | Sagdidae Pilsbry, 1895[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Sagda | |
Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea[2] and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea.[3] Some species of Sagdidae are ovoviviparous.[4]
Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.
