†Cylindrellinidae is an extinct family of 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 ...

s, terrestrial

pulmonate Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...

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 ...

mollusks.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Cylindrellinidae Zilch, 1959 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=833934 on 2022-11-07

Taxonomy

The family Cylindrellinidae is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the

clade A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, ...

Stylommatophora Stylommatophora is an orderPhilippe Bouchet, Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hausdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, Alexander Nützel, Pavel Parkhaev, Michael Schrödl and Ellen E. Strong. 2017. Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification ...

within the clade

Eupulmonata Eupulmonata is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing snails. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are marine and some are saltmarsh snails that can tolerate salty conditions. Linnean taxonomy *Suborder Eupulmonata H ...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Genera

* † '' Cylindrellina'' Munier-Chalmas, 1884 * †'' Fascinella'' Stache, 1871 * † '' Paradistoechia'' Cossmann, 1924 ;Synonyms: † ''Distoechia'' Crosse, 1890 : synonym of † ''Cylindrellina'' Munier-Chalmas, 1884 (junior subjective synonym)

References

* Zilch, A. (1959-1960). Teil 2: Euthyneura. In: O. H. Schindewolf, ed., Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6, Gastropoda . Borntraeger, Berlin. xii + 835 {{Pulmonata-stub