Acavidae

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Acavidae
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A live individual of Helicophanta gloriosa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Informal group: Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Acavoidea
Family: Acavidae
Pilsbry, 1895
Genera

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Synonyms

Clavatoridae Thiele, 1926

Acavidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table). [1]

Genera

The family Acavidae has no subfamilies.

Genera in the family Acavidae include: [2]

Genera brought into synonymy

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References

  1. 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.
  2. http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acavidae cited 11 October 2008
  3. Wesselingh F. P. (2006). "Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia". Scripta Geologica 133: 19-290. Figure 274. abstract, PDF