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Sagdidae
Sign in to saveSagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea. Some species of Sagdidae are ovoviviparous.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,217
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Sagdidae
- Collections
- DMNH, UF, FMNH, CM, USNM
- Recorded in
- Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, Antigua And Barbuda, Mexico, Dominican Republic
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- Sagdidae
- taxon rank
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sagdidae
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Anatomy
- Subfamilies and genera
- References
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Sagdidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks with highest diversity in the Greater Antilles. It has been classified in its own superfamily Sagdoidea and as a member of the superfamily Helicoidea. Some species of Sagdidae are ovoviviparous.
== Anatomy == Vestigial love darts exist in some species within this family.
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