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Urocyclidae

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Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderStylommatophora
  5. FamilyUrocyclidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
254
With media
1
Family
Urocyclidae
Collections
CAS, FMNH
Recorded in
Malaysia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Cameroon, Angola, Zaire

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Helicarionoidea
Image
Trochonanina mozambicensis.png
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Commons category
Urocyclidae
topic's main category
Category:Urocyclidae
taxon name
Urocyclidae
taxon rank
family
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Distribution
  • Taxonomy
  • Genera
  • Cladogram
  • References
  • External links

Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.

Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Urocyclidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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