Spelaeodiscidae

Family of gastropods

Spelaeodiscidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Orthurethra
Superfamily:
Pupilloidea
Family:
Spelaeodiscidae

Steenberg, 1925[1]
Genera

See text

Synonyms[2]

Aspasitinae Steenberg, 1925

Spelaeodiscidae is a family of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

The family Spelaeodiscidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera

Genera within the family Spelaeodiscidae include:

  • Klemmia Gittenberger, 1969[3]
  • Spelaeodiscus Brusina, 1886 - type genus of the family Spelaeodiscidae[2][3]
  • Virpazaria Gittenberger, 1969[3]

References

  1. ^ Steenberg (1925). Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forenig i Kjobenhavn 80: 202.
  2. ^ a b c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. ^ a b c "Spelaeodiscinae". Fauna Europaea, accessed 5 April 2011.
Taxon identifiers
Spelaeodiscidae


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