Acroreiidae
Appearance
| Acroreiidae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Siphonariida |
| Superfamily: | Siphonarioidea |
| Family: | †Acroreiidae Cossmann, 1893 |
| Genera | |
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Acroreiidae is an extinct family of air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Siphonariidae. The living siphonariids are all marine pulmonates, false sea limpets that breathe air.
Taxonomy
[edit]The family Acroreiidae is classified in the informal group, Basommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Acroreiidae has no subfamilies.
Genera
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The type genus is Acroreia Cossmann, 1885
References
[edit]Taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi
https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4599287.html