Trissexodontidae
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| Apertural view of the shell of Trissexodon constrictus. Scale is in mm. A regularly ribbed shell is one of the characteristics of this family. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Trissexodontidae H. Nordsieck, 1987[1] |
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Trissexodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies.[2] The family Trissexodontidae was separated out from the families Hygromiidae and Helicodontidae,[2] and some authors still classify these species within those families.
The distribution of Trissexodontidae includes the Iberian Peninsula, northwest Africa,[4] Azores,[5] Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde.[6]
Genera
Genera within the family Trissexodontidae include:
- Caracollina Beck, 1837[4]
- Gasullia Ortiz de Zárate López, 1962[4]
- Gasulliella Gittenberger, 1980[4] - with only one species, Gasulliella simplicula (Morelet, 1845)
- Gittenbergeria Schileyko, 1991[4]
- Mastigophallus Hesse, 1918[4] - with only one species, Mastigophallus rangianus (Michaud, 1831)
- Oestophora Hesse, 1907[4]
- Oestophorella Pfeffere, 1929[4]
- Trissexodon Pilsbry, 1895[4] - type genus of the family Trissexodontidae
- Spirorbula Lowe, 1852 - probable classification,[4] from Madeira and Porto Sancto[7]
- Suboestophora Ortiz de Zárate López, 1962[8]
