Euconulidae

Taxobox
name = Euconulidae


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Pulmonata
subordo = Eupulmonata
infraordo = Stylommatophora
superfamilia = Gastrodontoidea
familia = Euconulidae
familia_authority = Baker, 1928
subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies & Genera
subdivision = See text.

Euconulidae is a taxonomic family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks. This land snail family is closely allied to the Zonitidae, the glass snails.

Shell description

These minute snails have a shell which is roundly conical and broad-based, like the shape of an old-fashioned European woven bee hive or skep. For this reason these snails are sometimes known as "hive snails".

The shells of the Euconulidae are only about 3 mm in size, amber-colored and translucent.

Subfamilies & genera in the family Euconulidae

* Euconulinae
** "Euconulus"
* Microcystinae
** "Allenoconcha"
** "Aukena"
** "Buffetia"
** "Cookeana"
** "Diastole"
** "Faunulena"
** "Greenwoodoconcha"
** "Hiona"
** "Iredaleoconcha"
** "Kaala"
** "Kusaiea"
** "Lamprocystis"
** "Liardetia"
** "Mendana"
** "Microcystis"
** "Nancibella"
** "Periclocystis"
** "Philonesia"
** "Piena"
** "Pukaloa"
** "Tengchiena"