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Orthalicidae
Sign in to saveOrthalicidae (orthalicid land snails) are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
- FamilyOrthalicidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 631
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Orthalicidae
- Collections
- PRI, USNM, FMNH, CAS, CM, DMNH
- Recorded in
- Grenada, United States, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Republic Of Guatemala
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Orthalicoidea
- Image
- OrthalicidSnailPeru.jpg
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- Orthalicidae
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- Orthalicidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Orthalicidae
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- 2005 taxonomy
- 2010 taxonomy
- 2012 taxonomy
- Genera
- References
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Orthalicidae (orthalicid land snails) are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the superfamily Orthalicoidea of the order Stylommatophora.
They are medium-sized to large snails, from about 3 cm (about 1.2 inches) to 9 cm (about 3.5 inches) in shell length
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orthalicidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.