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Moitessieriidae
Family of gastropods / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moitessieriidae is a family of small freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Truncatelloidea.[1]
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Moitessieriidae | |
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Shell of Iglica soussensis (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
Family: | Moitessieriidae Bourguignat, 1863 |
Type genus | |
Moitessieria Bourguignat, 1863 |
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According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) the family Moitessieriidae has no subfamilies.
There are known 55 freshwater species of Moitessieriidae in the Palearctic region.[2]