Chlamydephoridae - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Chlamydephoridae is a family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

of air-breathing land slug

Slug

Slug is a common name that is normally applied to any gastropod mollusc that lacks a shell, has a very reduced shell, or has a small internal shell...

s, terrestrial

Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land , as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water , or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats...

pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata

Eupulmonata

The Eupulmonata is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing snails. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are marine and some are saltmarsh snails that can tolerate salty conditions.-Linnean taxonomy:...

(according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

).

These snails are presumed to be true carnivores. http://books.google.com/books?id=bjAh_Gszsy8C&pg=PA316&lpg=PA316&dq=chlamydephoridae&source=bl&ots=UylS1dcsD8&sig=ACGgxS_zRtUXyqe-Xep8i9LGl7A&hl=en&ei=lGfvSpvOB82vlAe5ydj_BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=chlamydephoridae&f=false

Taxonomy

The Chlamydephoridae family is classified within the informal group Sigmurethra

Sigmurethra

Sigmurethra is a taxonomic category of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This is an Informal Group which includes the majority of land snails and slugs....

, itself belonging to the clade

Clade

A clade is a group consisting of a species and all its descendants. In the terms of biological systematics, a clade is a single "branch" on the "tree of life". The idea that such a "natural group" of organisms should be grouped together and given a taxonomic name is central to biological...

Stylommatophora

Stylommatophora is a taxon of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This taxon is currently considered to be a clade. It was previously regarded as an infraorder...

within the clade Eupulmonata

Eupulmonata

(according to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005

Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)

The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...

).

The family Chlamydephoridae has no subfamilies.

Genera

This is a monogeneric family, in other words, there is only one genus in it: http://books.google.com/books?id=bjAh_Gszsy8C&pg=PA316&lpg=PA316&dq=chlamydephoridae&source=bl&ots=UylS1dcsD8&sig=ACGgxS_zRtUXyqe-Xep8i9LGl7A&hl=en&ei=lGfvSpvOB82vlAe5ydj_BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=chlamydephoridae&f=false

Chlamydephorus
Chlamydephorus
Chlamydephorus is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Chlamydephoridae.-Species:Species within the genus Chlamydephorus include:* Burnup's hunter slug, Chlamydephorus burnupi...

Binney
William G. Binney
William Green Binney William G. Binney, as he is usually referenced, was an American malacologist, working mostly during the second half of the nineteenth century...

, 1875 - the type genus
Apera Heynemann, 1885

Taxonomy

Genera

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