Epiphragmophoridae
| Epiphragmophoridae | |
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| live Minaselates paradoxa | |
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| Epiphragmophora clausomphalos shell | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Helicoidea |
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Epiphragmophoridae Hoffmann, 1928 |
| Diversity | |
| 65 species | |
Epiphragmophoridae 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). This family has no subfamilies.
Shileyko (2004) listed 40 species within Epiphragmophoridae. There are recognized 65 species within Epiphragmophoridae in 2017.
This family is defined by the absence of a diverticulum. These snails have one dart apparatus with a stylophore (dart sac), and one or two mucus glands that are inserted on the dart sac and on the accessory sac, or at the base of the dart sac.
Genera within the family Epiphragmophoridae include:
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