Family

Xanthonychidae

Helminthoglypta nickliniana. Photo: (c) James Maughn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Xanthonychidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
    - Class: Gastropoda (Gastropods)
      - Subclass: Heterobranchia (Heterobranchs)
        Infraclass: Euthyneura
        Subterclass: Tectipleura
        Superorder: Eupulmonata
        Order: Stylommatophora (Common land snails and slugs)
        Suborder: Helicina (Helicinan snails and slugs)
        Infraorder: Helicoidei (Helicoid and sagdoid land snails)
        Superfamily: Helicoidea (Helicoid land snails)
        Family: Xanthonychidae
        Subfamily: Monadeniinae (9)
        Subfamily: Helminthoglyptinae (8)

Subtaxa

Subfamily: Monadeniinae

Subfamily: Helminthoglyptinae

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