Cochlicopidae is a taxonomic family of small, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Anatomy In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.
Taxonomy The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005): subfamily Cochlicopinae Pilsbry, 1900 (1879) - synonyms: Cionellidae L. Pfeiffer, 1879; Zuidae Bourguignat, 1884 subfamily Azecinae Watson, 1920 - synonym: Cryptazecinae Schileyko, 1999
Genera The family Cochlicopidae includes the following genera:
subfamily Cochlicopinae Cochlicopa Férussac, 1821 - synonym: Cionella Jeffreys, 1830"Cochlicopa A. Ferussac 1821". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 September 2010.
subfamily Azecinae Azeca Fleming, 1828 Cryptazeca Folin & Bérillon, 1877 Hypnophila Bourguignat, 1858"Hypnophila Bourguignat 1858". Fauna Europaea, accessed 13 September 2010.
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