Amphibolidae
| Amphibolidae | |
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| A shell of the mud-flat snail, Amphibola crenata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Amphiboloidea |
| Family: |
Amphibolidae J. E. Gray, 1840 |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity | |
| 4 genera, 12 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming veliger stage.
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it was an only family within a superfamily Amphiboloidea in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.
Jörger et al. (2010) have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.
Genera and species within the family Amphibolidae include:
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