Argnidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
Distribution Distribution of Argnidae include Europe: southern and eastern Alps and Carpathian Mountains."Family summary for Argnidae". AnimalBase, last change 13-09-2006, accessed 4 August 2010.
Taxonomy The family Argnidae is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Argnidae has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Genera Genera in the family Argnidae include: Agardhiella Hesse, 1923"Genera in family Argnidae" [n = 3]. AnimalBase, accessed 4 August 2010. Argna Cossmann, 1889 - type genus. The type species of this genus is fossil, but the genus contains also recent species. Speleodentorcula Gittenberger, 1985
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