Megomphicidae

Megomphicidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Megomphicidae
Three views of a shell of Glyptostoma gabrielense
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Acavoidea
Family:
Megomphicidae

H. B. Baker, 1930
Genera

See text

Synonyms

Ammonitellinae Pilsbry, 1930
Polygyrellinae H. B. Baker, 1955

Genera

The family Megomphicidae has no subfamilies.

Genera within the family Megomphicidae include:

  • Ammonitella J. G. Cooper, 1868
  • Glyptostoma Bland and W. G. Binney, 1873
  • Megomphix H. B. Baker, 1930
  • Polygyrella W. G. Binney, 1863
  • Polygyroidea Pilsbry, 1930

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