Milacidae | |
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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:
Milacidae