Parmacellidae

Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Parmacellidae
Temporal range: ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent
Parmacella valenciennii
Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Superfamily: Parmacelloidea
Family: Parmacellidae
P. Fischer, 1856 (1855)
Genera

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Synonyms

Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.

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