Amnicolidae
| Amnicolidae | |
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| Drawing of the shell of Amnicola dalli with the operculum next to it | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
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clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Truncatelloidea |
| Family: |
Amnicolidae Tryon, 1863 |
| Genera | |
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| Diversity | |
| about 200 freshwater species | |
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
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Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.
This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.
The family Amnicolidae consists of 3 subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
Genera in the family Amnicolidae include:
subfamily Amnicolinae
subfamily Baicaliinae
subfamily Emmericiinae Brusina, 1870
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