Amphibolidae

Amphibolidae
A shell of the mud-flat snail, Amphibola crenata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Amphiboloidea
Family: Amphibolidae
J. E. Gray, 1840
Genera

See text.

Diversity
4 genera, 12 species
Synonyms
  • Ampullaceridae Troschel, 1845
  • Salinatoridae Starobogatov, 1970

Amphibolidae is a family of air-breathing snails with opercula, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.

This family of pulmonate gastropods, for breathe air, but also have opercula and at least some species go through a free-swimming veliger stage.

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