Amnicolidae
Sign in to saveAmnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyAmnicolidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- Family
- Amnicolidae
- Collections
- CM, ANSP, CASG, NMV
- Recorded in
- United States
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Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.
This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.
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