Aciculidae

Taxobox
name = Aciculidae

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image_caption = "Platyla polita"
image_width = 200px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Architaenioglossa
subordo =
infraordo =
superfamilia = Cyclophoroidea
familia = Aciculidae
familia_authority = J. E. Gray, 1850

The Aciculidae are a family of minute land snails which have opercula. (An operculum is a little door that closes the shell when the animal retracts into it.) In other words, Aciculidae are terrestrial operculate gastropods. They have sometimes been described as "winkles come ashore".

Even though Aciculidae are land snails, they live in rather wet conditions, among mosses and dead leaves.

Aciculidae family is in the informal group Architaenioglossa belonging to the clade Caenogastropoda (according taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

They were in the infraorder Littorinimorpha, in the suborder Hypsogastropoda in order Sorbeoconcha before.

Genera

* "Abchasohela"
* "Acicula" W. Hartmann, 1821 the needle snails (land snails)
* "Caziotia"
* "Hyalacme"
* "Kainarella"
* "Menkia" Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1985
* "Platyla" Moquin-Tandon, 1856
* "Pleuracme"
* "Renea" Nevill, 1880

References

* Horst Janus, 1965. "The Young Specialist Looks at Land and Freshwater Molluscs", Burke, London