Diplommatinidae

Diplommatinidae
Temporal range: Albian–Recent
Drawing of the shell of Opisthostoma everettii from Borneo.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Architaenioglossa
Superfamily: Cyclophoroidea
Family: Diplommatinidae
Pfeiffer, 1857
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Diplommatinidae is a family of small land snails, also known as staircase snails, with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cyclophoroidea. The Cochlostomatinae Kobelt, 1902, were previously considered a subfamily of the Diplommatinidae, but are now known to be a separate family.[1]

  1. ^ Webster, N.B., T. Van Dooren & M. Schilthuizen, 2012. Phylogenetic Reconstruction and Shell Evolution of the Diplommatinidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 625-638. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.02.004