Rhytididae

Rhytididae
A live Powelliphanta augusta from the upper Waimangaroa River.
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Rhytidoidea
Family: Rhytididae
Pilsbry, 1893

Rhytididae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized predatory air-breathing land snails, carnivorous terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rhytidoidea.

This family has three subfamilies:

  • Chlamydephorinae Cockerell, 1935 (1903)
  • Rhytidinae Pilsbry, 1893
  • Corillinae Pilsbry, 1905