Parmacellidae

Parmacellidae
Temporal range: ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent[1]
Parmacella valenciennii
Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Parmacelloidea
Family: Parmacellidae
P. Fischer, 1856 (1855)
Genera

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Synonyms

Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)[2]

Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference AB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Schileyko A. A. (2003). "On the conservation of the name Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856". Ruthenica 13(2): 167-168. PDF.