Trissexodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Trissexodontidae | |
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Apertural view of the shell of Trissexodon constrictus. Scale is in mm. A regularly ribbed shell is one of the characteristics of this family. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Infraorder: | Helicoidei |
Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
Family: | Trissexodontidae H. Nordsieck, 1987[1] |
Genera | |
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Synonyms[2] | |
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This family has no subfamilies.[2] The family Trissexodontidae was separated out from the families Hygromiidae and Helicodontidae,[2] and some authors still classify these species within those families.
The distribution of Trissexodontidae includes the Iberian peninsula, northwest Africa,[4] Azores,[5] Canary Islands, Madeira and Cape Verde.[6]
Genera within the family Trissexodontidae include:
Shells of species in the family Trissexodontidae are flat and regularly ribbed. The periostracum of the shell surface has no hairs.[4]
A description of the reproductive system was summarized by Prieto et al. (1993).[4]
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes is known only for the genus Oestophora (n=30).[4]