Diplommatinidae

Diplommatinidae
Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma everettii from Borneo.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
informal group Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
L. Pfeiffer, 1857
Subfamilies
  • Diplommatininae

Diplommatinidae is a family of small land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea. The Cochlostomatinae Kobelt, 1902, were previously considered a subfamily of the Diplommatinidae, but are now known to be a separate family.[1]

Genera

References

  1. Webster, N.B., T. Van Dooren & M. Schilthuizen, 2012. Phylogenetic Reconstruction and Shell Evolution of the Diplommatinidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 625-638. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.004
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