Azecidae is a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

of small and very small air-breathing

land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...

terrestrial Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth. Terrestrial may also refer to: * Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

s in the superfamily

Azecoidea Azecoidea is a superfamily of small and very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Pupilloidei The Pupilloideiis an taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestri ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Azecidae H. Watson, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933796 on 2021-03-13

Families

* '' Azeca'' J. Fleming, 1828 * '' Cryptazeca'' de Folin & Bérillon, 1877 * '' Gomeziella'' Cianfanelli, Bodon, Giusti & Manganelli, 2018 * '' Gomphroa'' Westerlund, 1903 * '' Hypnocarnica'' Cianfanelli & Bodon, 2018 * '' Hypnophila'' Bourguignat, 1858

References

* Watson, H. (1920). The affinities of Pyramidula, Patulastra, Acanthinula, and Vallonia. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 14 (1): 6-30, pl. 1–2. London * Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526

External links

Manganelli, G., Barbato, D., Pieńkowska, J. R., Benocci, A.; Lesicki, A. & Giusti, F. (2019). Unravelling the tangle of the azecid land snails: a survey on the supraspecific systematics based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Orthurethra). Folia Malacologica. 27(4): 253-291
{{taxonbar, from=Q17310425 Gastropod families Helicina (suborder)