Cylindrellinidae

Cylindrellinidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Pulmonata
(unranked): clade Stylommatophora

clade Orthurethra

Superfamily: Pupilloidea
Family: Cylindrellinidae
Zilch, 1959
Genera

See text.

Cylindrellinidae is an extinct family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.

Taxonomy

The Cylindrellinidae 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 Cylindrellinidae consists of the following subfamilies:

References


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