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| Drawing of apertural and abapertural view of the shell of Rhachistia rhodotaenia. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | Pupilloidei |
| Superfamily: | Pupilloidea |
| Family: | Cerastidae Wenz, 1923[1] |
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Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.[2]
- ^ Wenz, W. (1923). Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Gastropoda extramarina tertiaria. Berlin: W. Junk.
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738097 on 2020-12-31