Helicodontidae

Helicodontidae
Two immature and one mature shells of Helicodonta obvoluta, scale bar in mm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Helicodontidae Kobelt, 1904[1]
Genera
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Helicodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Taxonomy

The Helicodontidae family is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

There are two subfamilies in the family Helicodontidae.

The type genus is Helicodonta Férussac, 1821.

• subfamily Helicodontinae Kobelt, 1904 - synonym: Gonostomatinae Kobelt, 1904, Drepanostomatini Schileyko, 1991
  • Atenia Gittenberger, 1968
  • Darderia Altaba, 2006
  • Drepanostoma Porro, 1836
  • Falkneria H. Nordsieck, 1989
  • Helicodonta Férussac, 1821
  • Soosia Hesse, 1918

• subfamily Lindholmiolinae Schileyko, 1978
  • Lindholmiola Hesse, 1931

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