Geomitridae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.[1][2]
Geomitridae | |
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Cernuella virgata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Geomitridae Boettger, 1909 |
Type genus | |
Geomitra Swainson, 1840
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Genera | |
The family is characterized by the presence of a free right ommatophoral retractor (passing outside the peni-oviducal angle) and a double stimulatory apparatus.[1] A free right ommatophoral retractor has been linked to adaptation to xeric habitats[3]
The family Geomitridae is subdivided in the following subfamilies (according to Razkin et al., 2015[1])
Genera with the family Geomitridae include:[1][4]
Not belonging to a subfamily:
subfamily Helicellinae