Biology:Acroreiidae
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Short description: Extinct family of gastropods
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Acroreiidae is an extinct family of air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Siphonariidae. The living siphonariids are all marine pulmonates, false sea limpets that breathe air.
Taxonomy
The family Acroreiidae is classified in the informal group, Basommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Acroreiidae has no subfamilies.
Genera
The type genus is Acroreia Cossmann, 1885
References
Taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4599287.html Wikidata ☰ Q4676433 entry
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