Urocyclidae | |
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A live individual of Trochonanina mozambicensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Infraorder: | Limacoidei |
Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
Family: | Urocyclidae Simroth, 1889 [1] |
Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [2]
Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.[ citation needed ]
The Urocyclidae are distributed in the Afrotropical realm, including Madagascar, the Comores and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea. [3] [4]
The family Urocyclidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), [2] that follows classification of Urocyclinae by Van Goethem (1977): [5]
Genera within the family Urocyclidae include:
Tribe Dendrolimacini
Tribe Leptichnini
Tribe Upembellini
tribe Urocyclini
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family to other families in the limacoid clade: [3]
limacoid clade |
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