Helicarionidae

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Helicarionidae
Five worn shells of Erepta setiliris in the family Helicarionidae, at Réunion island
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Helicarionoidea
Family: Helicarionidae
Bourguignat, 1877[1]

Helicarionidae is a

mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.[2]

Distribution

The distribution of Helicarionidae includes the eastern

Palearctic, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Hawaii, and Australia.[3]

Anatomy

Species of snails within this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

In this family, the number of

haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[4]

Taxonomy

The family Helicarionidae is nested within the

limacoid clade, as shown in the following cladogram :[3]

 
limacoid clade
 

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the family Helicarionidae:[5]

Subfamily Helicarioninae
Subfamily Durgellinae Godwin-Austen, 1888
Unplaced genera

References

  1. ^ Bourguignat J. R. (1877). "Description de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suive d'une classification des families et des genres de Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen". Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse 3(1): 49-101. page 64.
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  5. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Helicarionidae Bourguignat, 1877". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2022-10-12.

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