Parmacellidae | |
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Parmacella valenciennii | |
Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Parmacelloidea |
Family: | Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856 (1855) |
Genera | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum) [2] |
Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.
The distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western Palearctic, [3] and ranges from the Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan. [1]
Genera within family Parmacellidae include:
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade: [3]
limacoid clade |
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