Semisulcospiridae | |
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A live individual of Semisulcospira kurodai crawling on the glass of an aquarium | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Semisulcospiridae Morrison, 1952[1] |
Type species | |
Hortia arriuensis Lozouet, 1999 † | |
Species | |
See text | |
Diversity[2] | |
about 50 extant species | |
Synonyms[3] | |
Jugidae Starobogatov, Prozorova, Bogatov & Sayenko, 2004 (n.a.) |
Semisulcospiridae, common name semisulcospirids, is a family of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks with an operculum, in the superfamily Cerithioidea.[3]
Semisulcospiridae diversified from the Pleuroceridae about 90 million years ago, in the Cretaceous.[4]
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