Helicarionidae


Helicarionidae is a family of air-breathing land snails or semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.

Distribution

The distribution of Helicarionidae includes the eastern Palearctic, Malagasy, India, south-eastern Asia, Hawaii, and Australia.

Anatomy

Species of snails within this family make and use love darts made of chitin.
In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 21 and 30.

Taxonomy

The following two subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi :
Genera within the family Helicarionidae include:
subfamily Helicarioninae
subfamily Durgellinae
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The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade: