Orculidae

Orculidae
Orcula dolium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Orculidae
Pilsbry, 1918
Genera
see text

Orculidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails; terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata.

Taxonomy

The family Orculidae contains two subfamilies (according to Hausdorf 1996[1] and the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Genera

Genera within the family Orculidae include:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Hausdorf, B. (1996). "Die Orculidae Asiens (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) (Mousson 1856) (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Phaedusinae)"]. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 125 (1/2): 1-86.
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