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Hygromiidae
Sign in to saveHygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
Species
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyHygromiidae
Гигромииды (лат. Hygromiidae) — семейство небольших или среднего размера лёгочных земляных (англ.)русск. улиток подотряда Стебельчатоглазые (Stylommatophora).
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,983
- With media
- 16
- Family
- Hygromiidae
- Collections
- CM, FMNH, UMZC
- Recorded in
- France, Austria, Spain, Turkey, Italy
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Anatomy
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- Synonyms
- References
- External links
Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.
==Anatomy== Some snails in genera within this family create and use love darts as part of their courtship and mating behavior.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hygromiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.