Urocyclidae

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Urocyclidae
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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]

Contents

Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.[ citation needed ]

Distribution

The Urocyclidae are distributed in the Afrotropical realm, including Madagascar, the Comores and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea. [3] [4]

Taxonomy

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

Genera within the family Urocyclidae include:

unsorted
Subfamily Rhysotininae Schileyko, 2002
Subfamily Sheldoniinae
Subfamily Urocyclinae

Tribe Dendrolimacini

Tribe Leptichnini

Tribe Upembellini

tribe Urocyclini

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family to other families in the limacoid clade: [3]

  limacoid clade  
  Staffordioidea  

Staffordiidae

  Dyakioidea  

Dyakiidae

  Gastrodontoidea  

Pristilomatidae

Chronidae

Euconulidae

Trochomorphidae

Gastrodontidae

Oxychilidae

  Parmacelloidea  

Trigonochlamydidae

Parmacellidae

Milacidae

  Zonitoidea  

Zonitidae

  Helicarionoidea  

Helicarionidae

Ariophantidae

Urocyclidae

  Limacoidea  

Vitrinidae

Boettgerillidae

Limacidae

Agriolimacidae

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