Semisulcospiridae
Semisulcospiridae, common name semisulcospirids, is a family of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks with an operculum, in the superfamily Cerithioidea.
| Semisulcospiridae | |
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| A live individual of Semisulcospira kurodai crawling on the glass of an aquarium | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Semisulcospiridae Morrison, 1952 |
| Type species | |
| Hortia arriuensis Lozouet, 1999 † | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Diversity | |
| about 50 extant species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Jugidae Starobogatov, Prozorova, Bogatov & Sayenko, 2004 (n.a.) | |
Semisulcospiridae diversified from the Pleuroceridae about 90 million years ago, in the Cretaceous.
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