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Milacidae

Milacidae
Tandonia budapestensis.jpg
Tandonia budapestensis
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: Parmacelloidea
Family: Milacidae
Ellis, 1926
Diversity
2 genera, about 50 species,

less than 50 species


less than 50 species

Milacidae is a family of air-breathing, keeled, land slugs. These are shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Parmacelloidea.

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.

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 31 and 35 (according to the values in this table).

Genera within the family Milacidae include:

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families in the limacoid clade:


Staffordiidae

Dyakiidae

Pristilomatidae

Chronidae

Euconulidae

Trochomorphidae

Gastrodontidae

Oxychilidae

Trigonochlamydidae

Parmacellidae

Milacidae

Zonitidae

Helicarionidae


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