Xanthonychidae
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Xanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.[2]
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Xanthonychidae | |
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Averellia desidens shell | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Xanthonychidae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879[1] |
Type genus | |
Xanthonyx | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Epiphragmophoridae Hoffmann, 1928 |
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This family is within the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).