Acroreiidae
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| Family: | Acroreiidae Cossmann, 1893
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† Acroreiidae is an extinct family of air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Siphonariidae. The living siphonariids are all marine pulmonates, false sea limpets that breathe air.
Taxonomy[]
The family Acroreiidae is classified in the informal group, Basommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Acroreiidae has no subfamilies.
Genera[]
The type genus is Cossmann, 1885
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