Pleuroceridae

Pleuroceridae
Io fluvialis
Athearnia anthonyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Pleuroceridae
Fischer, 1885
Diversity
About 150 extant species
Synonyms
  • Anaplocamidae Dall, 1921 ·
  • Ceriphasiidae Gill, 1863 ·
  • Ceriphasiinae Gill, 1863 · > junior subjective synonym
  • Ellipstomatidae Hannibal, 1912 ·
  • Gyrotominae Hannibal, 1912 ·
  • Strepomatidae Haldeman, 1864

Pleuroceridae, common name pleurocerids, is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.

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