Trochomorphidae
| Trochomorphidae | |
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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: |
Trochomorphidae Möllendorff, 1890 |
| Genera | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Geotrochidae Schileyko, 2002 |
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Geotrochidae Schileyko, 2002
Trochomorphidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The distribution of Trochomorphidae includes eastern-Palearctic, India, south-eastern Asia, Australian and Polynesia.
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).
Genera within the family Trochomorphidae include:
Some authors place the following two genera in this family, instead of in the family Zonitidae.
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:
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