Spiraxidae
| Spiraxidae | |
|---|---|
| A live individual of Euglandina rosea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Oleacinoidea |
| Family: | Spiraxidae H. B. Baker, 1939 |
| Type genus | |
| Spiraxis | |
| Genera | |
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See text | |
| Diversity | |
| over 260 species in Central America + some more in South America | |
Spiraxidae is a family of predatory air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the superfamily Testacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).