Euconulidae
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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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
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