Chronidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
Superfamily: | Gastrodontoidea |
Family: |
Chronidae Thiele, 1931 |
Genera | |
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Chronidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Distribution of Chronidae include eastern-Palearctic, Ethiopian, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesian.
Genera within the family Chronidae include:
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family with the other families within the limacoid clade:
Chronidae