The Glacidorbidae is a taxonomic 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 freshwater snail

Freshwater snail

A freshwater snail is one kind of freshwater mollusc, the other kind being freshwater clams and mussels, i.e. freshwater bivalves. Specifically a freshwater snail is a gastropod that lives in a watery non-marine habitat. The majority of freshwater gastropods have a shell, with very few exceptions....

s, gastropod mollusks in the clade Panpulmonata

Panpulmonata

Panpulmonata is a taxonomic clade of snails and slugs in the clade Heterobranchia within the clade Euthyneura.Panpulmonata was established as a new taxon by Jörger et al...

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2005 taxonomy

Glacidorbidae is the only family in the superfamily Glacidorboidea. Glacidorboidea has been classified within the informal group Lower Heterobranchia

Lower Heterobranchia

Lower Heterobranchia, also known as the Allogastropoda, is a group of rather specialized, highly-evolved sea slugs and sea snails, within the clade Heterobranchia...

 in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi

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...

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2010 taxonomy

Jörger et al. (2010) redefined the major groups within the Heterobranchia; they moved Glacidorboidea to Panpulmonata

Panpulmonata

Panpulmonata is a taxonomic clade of snails and slugs in the clade Heterobranchia within the clade Euthyneura.Panpulmonata was established as a new taxon by Jörger et al...

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Genera

Genera within the family Glacidorbidae include:

• Glacidorbis
  Glacidorbis
  Glacidorbis is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Glacidorbidae....
  
  Iredale
  Tom Iredale
  Tom Iredale was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an autodidact who never went to university and lacked formal training...
  
  , 1943 – the type genus
• Gondwanorbis Ponder
  Winston Ponder
  Winston F. Ponder B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, D.Sc. is a noted malacologist from New Zealand who has named and described many marine animals, especially micromolluscs. He is a graduate of the University of Auckland, New Zealand....
  
  , 1986
• Benthodorbis
  Benthodorbis
  Benthodorbis is a genus of minute freshwater snails with an operculum and a gill, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Glacidorbidae.-Species:Species within the genus Benthodorbis include:* Bethodorbis fultoni...
  
  Ponder & Avern, 2000
• Striadorbis
  Striadorbis
  Striadorbis is a genus of minute freshwater snails that have an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Glacidorbidae.-Species:Species within the genus Striadorbis include:* Striadorbis janetae...
  
  Ponder & Avern, 2000
• Tasmodorbis Ponder & Avern, 2000

Further reading

• Ponder W. F. & Avern G. J. (2000) "The Glacidorbidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) of Australia". Records of the Australian Museum 52: 307–353. HTM