Acroreiidae
| Acroreiidae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Siphonarioidea |
| Family: | Acroreiidae Cossmann, 1893 |
| Genera | |
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† Acroreiidae is an extinct family of air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Siphonariidae. The living siphonariids are all marine pulmonates, false sea limpets that breathe air.
Taxonomy
The Acroreiidae family is classified in the informal group, Basommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Acroreiidae has no subfamilies.
Genera
The type genus is Acroreia Cossmann, 1885
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