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Truncatellinidae

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Truncatellinidae
Shell of Columella aspera (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Chondrinoidea
Family: Truncatellinidae
Steenberg, 1925

Truncatellinidae is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Chondrinoidea.[1]

Genera

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Genera brought into synonymy
  • Edentulina Clessin, 1876: synonym of Columella Westerlund, 1878
  • Franzia Blume, 1965: synonym of Truncatellina R. T. Lowe, 1852 (junior primary homonym of Franzia Jordan & Thompson, 1914)
  • Laurinella P. Hesse, 1915: synonym of Truncatellina R. T. Lowe, 1852
  • Paludinella R. T. Lowe, 1852: synonym of Columella Westerlund, 1878

References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Truncatellinidae Steenberg, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994722 on 2020-08-30
  • Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017.