Caryodidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family is endemic to eastern Australia.Family CARYODIDAE . Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory, accessed 30 September 2010.
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family was previously treated as a subfamily of the family Acavidae.
Genera The family Caryodidae has no subfamilies.
Genera and species within this family include:
Anoglypta Martens, 1860 Brazieresta Iredale, 1933 Caryodes Albers, 1850 - type genus Hedleyella Iredale, 1914 Pandofella Iredale, 1933 Pedinogyra Albers, 1860 Pedinogyra allani Iredale, 1937 Pedinogyra effossa Iredale, 1937 Pedinogyra hayii (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833) Pedinogyra minor (Mousson, 1869) Pedinogyra hayii (Reeve, 1852) Pedinogyra rotabilis (Reeve, 1852) Pygmipanda Iredale, 1933 includes Pygmipanda atomata
References
Further reading Murphy M. J. (2002). "Observations on the behaviour of the Australian land snail Hedleyella falconeri (Grey, 1834) (Pulmonata : Caryodidae) using the spool-and-line tracking technique". Molluscan Research 22(2): 149-164. , PDF.
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