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Argnidae 
Summary
Argnidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
| Argnidae Temporal range: Upper Miocene-Recent
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| Shells of Argna biplicata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | ArgnidaeHudec, 1965 |
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Distribution edit
Distribution of Argnidae include Europe: southern and eastern Alps and Carpathian Mountains.[1]
Taxonomy edit
The family Argnidae is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Argnidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera edit
Genera in the family Argnidae include:
- Agardhiella Hesse, 1923[2]
- Argna Cossmann, 1889 - type genus.[2] The type species of this genus is fossil, but the genus contains also recent species.
- Speleodentorcula Gittenberger, 1985[2]
References edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Argnidae.
- ^ a b "Family summary for Argnidae". AnimalBase, last change 13-09-2006, accessed 4 August 2010.
- ^ a b c "Genera in family Argnidae" [n = 3]. AnimalBase, accessed 4 August 2010.