Epiphragmophoridae 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 snail

Land snail

A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...

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 superfamily Helicoidea

Helicoidea

Helicoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.-Families:There are 19 families within the superfamily Helicoidea according to Bouchet & Rocroi .* Helicidae...

 (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...

). This family has no subfamilies.

Anatomy

This family is defined by the absence of a diverticulum

Diverticulum

A diverticulum is medical or biological term for an outpouching of a hollow structure in the body. Depending upon which layers of the structure are involved, they are described as being either true or false....

. These snails have one dart apparatus

Love dart

A love dart is a hard, long, sharp, calcareous or chitinous dart which some hermaphroditic land snails and slugs create. Love darts are made in sexually mature animals only, and are used as part of the sequence of events during courtship, before actual mating takes place...

 with a stylophore (dart sac), and one or two mucus glands that are inserted on the dart sac and on the accessory sac, or at the base of the dart sac.

Genera

Genera within the family Epiphragmophoridae include:

• Angrandiella Ancey, 1886
• Dinotropis Pilsbry & Cockerell, 1937
• Doeringina Ihering, 1929
• Epiphragmophora Döring, 1874 - the type genus of the family Epiphragmophoridae. It is from Argentina and Bolivia.
• Karlschmidtia Haas, 1955
• Pilsbrya Ancey, 1887 - synonym: Poecilostola Ancey 1886

Further reading

• Fernández D. & Rumi A. (1984). "Revisión del género Epiphragmophora de la malacofauna terrestre Argentina". Acta Zoológica Lilloana 37(2):231-272.