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The Aciculidae are a family of minute land snails which have opercula. (An operculum is a little door that closes the shell when the animal retracts into it.) In other words, Aciculidae are terrestrial operculate gastropods. They have sometimes been described as "winkles come ashore".
Even though Aciculidae are land snails, they live in rather wet conditions, among mosses and dead leaves.
Genera
- Acicula W. Hartmann, 1821
- Menkia Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1985
- Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856
- Renea Nevill, 1880
References
- Horst Janus, 1965. The Young Specialist Looks at Land and Freshwater Molluscs, Burke, London
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