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Family of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.[2]
| Xanthonychidae | |
|---|---|
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| Averellia desidens shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
| Family: | Xanthonychidae Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Xanthonyx | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Epiphragmophoridae Hoffmann, 1928 | |
This family is within the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Xanthonychidae consists of the following subfamilies:
Trichodiscininae H. Nordsieck, 1987: belongs to the family Trichodiscinidae H. Nordsieck, 1987
Lysinoidae may be treated as a separate family with subfamilies Leptariontinae, Lysinoinae and Metostracinae.[3]
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Genera in the family Xanthonychidae include:
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