Gastrodontidae

Gastrodontidae
Temporal range: ?Upper Paleocene, Upper Oligocene-Recent
Two shells of Zonitoides nitidus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Gastrodontoidea
Family: Gastrodontidae
Tryon, 1866
Type genus
Gastrodonta
Tryon, 1866
Genera

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Synonyms
  • Gastrodontinae Tryon, 1866 superseded rank
  • Godwiniinae C. M. Cooke, 1921

Gastrodontidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea (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).