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Pomatiidae
Sign in to saveThe family Pomatiidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that can be found over the warmer parts of the Old World. In the older literature, this family is designated as Pomatiasidae.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyPomatiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 88
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Pomatiidae
- Collections
- PRI, CAS, CM, UTEP, DMNH
- Recorded in
- Myanmar, Mauritius, Madagascar, Tanzania, Philippines, Mexico, Jamaica, Repubblica Italiana
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The family Pomatiidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that can be found over the warmer parts of the Old World. In the older literature, this family is designated as Pomatiasidae.
This family is a lineage closely related to the Littorinidae (periwinkles) common in coastal habitat. They have adapted to terrestrial life and are thus sometimes called "land winkles".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pomatiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.