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Family of gastropods

Acavidae
A live individual of Helicophanta gloriosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Rhytidoidea
Family: Acavidae
Pilsbry, 1895
Genera

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Acavidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rhytidoidea.

Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).

Genera

The family Acavidae has no subfamilies.

Genera in the family Acavidae include:

Genera brought into synonymy
  • Acavella Jousseaume, 1894: synonym of Oligospira Ancey, 1887
  • Columplica W. Hartmann, 1843: synonym of Stylodonta De Cristofori & Jan, 1832
  • Poecilostylus Pilsbry, 1890: synonym of Eurystyla Ancey, 1887
  • Stylodon H. Beck, 1837: synonym of Stylodonta De Cristofori & Jan, 1832

References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871059 on 2024-12-06
  2. Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
  3. http://species.wikimedia.org/Acavidae cited 11 October 2008
  4. Wesselingh F. P. (2006). "Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia". Scripta Geologica 133: 19-290. Figure 274. abstract, PDF

External links

  • Media related to Acavidae at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
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