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eupulmonata

(Suborder)

Overview

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An Order in the Kingdom .

Taxonomy

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The Suborder eupulmonata is a member of the Order Pulmonata. Here is the complete "parentage" of Eupulmonata:

The Suborder eupulmonata is further organized into finer groupings including:

Families

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Acavidae

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Achatinellidae

Achatinellidae is a family of gastropod in the order Stylommatophora. [more]

Achatinidae

Achatinidae (New Latin, from Greek "agate") is a family of medium to large sized tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks from Africa. The family includes some 13 genera. [more]

Agriolimacidae

Agriolimacidae is a family of small and medium sized land slugs, or shell-less snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Aillyidae

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Amastridae

Amastridae is a taxonomic family of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cochlicopoidea. [more]

Anadenidae

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Anadromidae

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Anastomopsidae

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Argnidae

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Ariolimacidae

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Arionidae

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Ariophantidae

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Athoracophoridae

Athoracophoridae, common name the leaf-veined slugs, are a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora, the stalk-eyed snails and slugs. Many of the species have an attractive pattern on their dorsal surface which resembles the veins in a leaf, hence the common name. [more]

Binneyidae

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Boettgerillidae

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Bradybaenidae

Bradybaenidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Camaenidae

Camaenidae is a family of gastropods in the order Stylommatophora. [more]

Caryodidae

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Cepolidae

Bandfishes are a family, Cepolidae, of perciform fishes. They are native to the Atlantic seaboard of Europe and the West Pacific, including New Zealand. They dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabed and eat zooplankton. [more]

Cerastidae

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Cerionidae

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Charopidae

Charopidae is a family of gastropod in the Stylommatophora order. [more]

Chlamydephoridae

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Chondrinidae

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Chronidae

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Clausiliidae

Clausiliidae, common name door snails, are a taxonomic family of small, very elongate, mostly left-handed, air-breathing land snails, sinistral terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Cochlicellidae

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Cochlicopidae

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Coelociontidae

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Corillidae

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Cylindrellinidae

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Cystopeltidae

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Discidae

Discidae is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora. [more]

Dorcasiidae

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Draparnaudiidae

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Dyakiidae

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Ellobiidae

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Elonidae

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Endodontidae

Endodontidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Enidae

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Epiphragmophoridae

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Euconulidae

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Ferussaciidae

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Filholiidae

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Gastrodontidae

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Grangerellidae

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Halolimnohelicidae

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Haplotrematidae

Haplotrematidae is a family of carnivorous gastropods. These are North American land snails. They are distributed from Alaska, through coastal Canada, and as far south as northern Mexico, but are predominately snails of the eastern and western United States. Their shells vary in size from small (7 mm in diameter, or about 0.3 inches) to medium (32 mm, about 1.3 inches), usually with a low, flattened spire, a very wide umbilicus, and usually with the upper lip margin (at the aperture) curving downwards or straightened. They have a number of anatomical peculiarities, and the structure of the radula of these snails (their "teeth") is unusual. Essentially, haplotrematids have fewer cusps than most snails, but they are considerably elogated, suitable for the predatory life they follow. Members of this family have been given the common name "lancetooth" snails, presumably based on this last anatomical characteristic. Their sole food source consists, as far as is known, of other terrestrial mollusks. [more]

Helicarionidae

Helicarionidae is a family of gastropods in the order Stylommatophora. [more]

Helicidae

The Helicidae, sometimes known as the typical snails, are a taxonomic family of medium sized to large, air-breathing, land snails. In other words, they are small to large terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Helicodiscidae

Helicodiscidae is a family of gastropods. [more]

Helicodontidae

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Helminthoglyptidae

The Helminthoglyptidae are a family of pulmonate land snails. This is a large and diverse group of new world snails, ranging in distribution from Alaska through North America to the West Indies, Central America, and as far south as Argentina. [more]

Humboldtianidae

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Hygromiidae

Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium sized land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the order Stylommatophora. [more]

Lauriidae

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Limacidae

Limacidae, or the keelback slugs, is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to very large land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. [more]

Macrocyclidae

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Megaspiridae

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Megomphicidae

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Micractaeonidae

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Milacidae

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Monadeniidae

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Oleacinidae

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Oopeltidae

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Orculidae

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Oreohelicidae

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Orthalicidae

Orthalicidae is a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora. It is often treated as a subfamily of the closely related family Bulimulidae. These are medium to large snails, from about 3 cm (about 1.2 inches) to 9 cm (about 3.5 inches) in shell length. [more]

Otinidae

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Oxychilidae

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Palaeostoidae

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Papillodermatidae

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Parmacellidae

Parmacella is a genus of gastropod in the Parmacellidae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Partulidae

Partulidae is an endemic Pacific island land snail family in the infraorder Stylommatophora. [more]

Philomycidae

The Philomycidae are a family of slugs, snails without shells or with only shell remnants, that are found in China, Japan, the East Indies, central and eastern North America, and through Central America into northern South America. [more]

Placostylidae

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Plectopylidae

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Pleurodiscidae

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Pleurodontidae

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Polygyridae

Polygyridae is a family of gastropods. They make up a significant proportion of the land snail fauna of eastern North America, and are also found in western North America, northern Central America, and are present on some Caribbean islands. The definitive reference to the group is Henry Pilsbry's 1940 monograph. [more]

Pristilomatidae

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Punctidae

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Pupillidae

Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails; terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Pulmonata. [more]

Pyramidulidae

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Rhytididae

Rhytididae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized predatory air-breathing land snails, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. [more]

Sagdidae

Xenodiscula is a genus of gastropod in the Sagdidae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Scolodontidae

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Sculptariidae

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Smeagolidae

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Spelaeoconchidae

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Spelaeodiscidae

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Sphincterochilidae

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Spiraxidae

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Staffordiidae

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Streptaxidae

Streptaxidae is a family of gastropods in the order Stylommatophora. [more]

Strobilopsidae

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Strophocheilidae

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Subulinidae

Subulinidae is a family of snails. [more]

Succineidae

Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. They are commonly called amber snails because their thin fragile shells are translucent and amber-colored. They usually live in damp habitats such as marshes. [more]

Testacellidae

Testacella is genus of small to medium-large, predatory, air-breathing, land slugs. They are terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Testacellidae, the shelled slugs. They are not often seen because they live underground. [more]

Thyrophorellidae

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Thysanophoridae

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Trigonochlamydidae

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Trimusculidae

Trimusculidae is a family of small, air-breathing sea snails known as button shells, which are one kind of "false limpet". These are marine pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Trissexodontidae

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Trochomorphidae

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Urocoptidae

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Urocyclidae

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Valloniidae

Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the suborder Stylommatophora. [more]

Vertiginidae

Vertiginidae is a family of small gastropod molluscs. [more]

Vitrinidae

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Xanthonychidae

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Zonitidae

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At least 1,003 species and subspecies belong to the Family Zonitidae.

More info about the Family Zonitidae may be found here.

Sources

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Last Revised: June 24, 2008