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| Drawing of apertural and abapertural view of the shell of Rhachistia rhodotaenia. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Enoidea |
| Family: | Cerastidae Wenz, 1923[1] |
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Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
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The Cerastidae family is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Cerastidae has no subfamilies.
Genera in the family Cerastidae include:
Anatomically speaking, there is no flagellum in the reproductive system of snails in the family Cerastidae, and this is what distinguishes this family from its sister group the family Enidae.[2]