Cerastidae
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Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Enoidea, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Cerastidae has no subfamilies.
Genera
Genera in the family Cerastidae include:
- Cerastus Martens, 1860 - type genus of the family Cerastidae
- Pachnodus Martens, 1860
- Rhachistia Connolly, 1922
- Rhachis Pfeiffer, 1856
Description
Anatomically speaking, there is no flagellum in the reproductive system of snails in the family Cerastidae, and this is what distinguishes this family from its sister group the family Enidae.[2]
References
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- ↑ Wenz W. (2 August 1923) "Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria" Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia. 3387 pp., published in parts: Part IV, Pars 21: 1069-1420. Cerastidae is on the page 1072.
- ↑ Mordan P. B. (1992) "The morphology and phylogeny of the Cerastuinae (Pulmonata: Pupilloidea)". Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) 58, 1–20.
