| Euconulidae | |
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| Plegma caelatura | |
| 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: | Euconulidae Baker, 1928 |
| Subfamilies & Genera | |
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Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails.
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Distribution of Euconulidae include Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Palearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian, Malagasy, south-eastern Asia, Australian, Polynesian and Hawaii.[1]
These minute snails have a shell which is roundly conical and broad-based, like the shape of an old-fashioned European woven bee hive or skep. For this reason these snails are sometimes known as "hive snails".
The shells of most Euconulidae are only about 3 mm in size, amber-colored and translucent.
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[2]
Subfamilies and genera in the family Euconulidae include:
Euconulinae
Microcystinae
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The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family with the other families within the limacoid clade:[1]
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