Helicarionidae
| Helicarionidae | |
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| Five worn shells of Erepta setiliris at Réunion island | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): |
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: |
Helicarionidae Bourguignat, 1877 |
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Helicarionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.
The distribution of Helicarionidae includes the eastern Palearctic, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Hawaii, and Australia.
Species of snails within this family make and use love darts made of chitin.
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 30 (according to the values in this table).
The following two subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Genera within the family Helicarionidae include:
subfamily Helicarioninae
subfamily Durgellinae
subfamily ?
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:
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