Urocyclidae
| Urocyclidae | |
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| A live individual of Trochonanina mozambicensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Helicarionoidea |
| Family: |
Urocyclidae Simroth, 1889 |
| Genera | |
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clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
clade Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
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Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.
The Urocyclidae are distributed in the Afrotropical Region, including Madagascar, the Comores and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea.
The family Urocyclidae consists of 2 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), that follows classification of Urocyclinae by Van Goethem (1977):
Genera within the family Urocyclidae include:
Subfamily Urocyclinae
tribe Urocyclini
Tribe Dendrolimacini
Tribe Leptichnini
Tribe Upembellini
Subfamily Sheldoniinae
Unsorted:
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family to other families in the limacoid clade:
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