Truncatellinidae is a
family
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of minute, air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
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Terrestrial may also refer to:
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pulmonate gastropod molluscs or
micromollusks in the superfamily
Chondrinoidea
Chondrinoidea is a superfamily of small air-breathing land snails and terrestrial mollusks in the infraorder ''Pupilloidei'' .MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Chondrinoidea Steenberg, 1925. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spec ...
.
[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]
Genera
* ''
Columella
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Westerlund, 1878
* ''
Negulus''
O. Boettger, 1889
* ''
Truncatellina
''Truncatellina'' is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Truncatellinidae.MolluscaBase (2018). Truncatellina R. T. Lowe, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spec ...
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R. T. Lowe, 1852
;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
* Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.
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Gastropod families