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Acroreiidae

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Acroreiidae
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Acroreiidae

Cossmann, 1893
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Acroreiidae is an extinct family of air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Siphonariidae. The living siphonariids are all marine pulmonates, false sea limpets that breathe air.

Taxonomy

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The family Acroreiidae is classified in the informal group, Basommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Acroreiidae has no subfamilies.

Genera

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The type genus is Acroreia Cossmann, 1885

References

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Taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi

https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4599287.html