Topic summary
Pleurodontidae
Pleurodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrialpulmonategastropodmollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
The family is classified within the order Stylommatophora, in the superorder Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family has no subfamilies.
The family Pleurodontidae includes some American taxa that used to be included within the Australasian family Camaenidae, a taxon whose monophyly was in doubt.