Epirobiidae is a

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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 ...

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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

Urocoptoidea Urocoptoidea is a Superfamily (zoology), superfamily of land snails, gastropods in the suborder Helicina (suborder), Helicina. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Urocoptoidea Pilsbry, 1898 (1868). Accessed through: World Register of Marine S ...

Taxonomy

The American

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Fred G. Thompson established the family Epirobiidae in 2012 for five genera of snails ('' Epirobia'', '' Propilsbrya'', '' Pectinistemma'', '' Gyrocion'', '' Prionoloplax''), which were previously placed within the family

Urocoptidae Urocoptidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Urocoptoidea. Taxonomy 2005 taxonomy The family Urocoptidae was classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea (according to ...

Genera

Genera in the family Epirobiidae include: * '' Epirobia'' Strebel & Pfeffer, 1880 - the type genus of the family Epirobiidae, 13 species * '' Propilsbrya'' Bartsch, 1906 - two species * '' Pectinistemma'' Rehder, 1940 - five species * '' Gyrocion'' Pilsbry, 1904 - probable placement within Epirobiidae; the single species is '' Gyrocion mirabilis'' (Pilsbry, 1904) * '' Prionoloplax'' Pilsbry, 1953 - probable placement within Epirobiidae; the single species is '' Prionoloplax odontoplax'' (Pilsbry, 1953)

References

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