Lithoglyphidae

Lithoglyphidae
Live Lithoglyphus naticoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neotaenioglossa
Family: Lithoglyphidae
Tryon, 1866[1]

Lithoglyphidae is a family of small freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.

This family is in the superfamily Truncatelloidea and in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

  1. ^ Tryon G. W. (1866). "[Book review of] Researches upon the Hydrobiinae and allied forms by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, 8 vol. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, August 1865. 58 pp". American Journal of Conchology, 2(2), 152–158. page 156.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bouchet 2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).