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Tailed Snails
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Tailed Snails

Urocyclidae

Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea, (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first

Urocyclinae

subfamilyUrocyclinae

Tailwagger Snails

subfamilySheldoniinae

Rhysotininae

subfamilyRhysotininae

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 86127.