Milacidae is a family of air-breathing, keeled, land slugs. These are shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Parmacelloidea.
Milacidae | |
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Tandonia budapestensis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Superfamily: | Parmacelloidea |
Family: | Milacidae Ellis, 1926 |
Diversity[1][2] | |
2 genera, about 50 species, less than 50 species |
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The distribution of the Milacidae includes the western Palearctic.[3]
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).[4]
Genera within the family Milacidae include:
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families in the limacoid clade:[3]