Dorcasiidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acavoidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2]

Dorcasiidae
Dorcasia alexandri Gray, 1838
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Family:
Dorcasiidae

The family Dorcasiidae has no subfamilies.[2]

Distribution

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Found in southern Africa.[3]

Genera

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Genera within the family Dorcasiidae include:

References

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  1. ^ Connolly M. (1915). "Notes on South African Mollusca". Annals of the South African Museum 13: 99-178. plates 2-4. Page 120, 134.
  2. ^ a b c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  3. ^ a b Gess F. W. & Gess S. K. (1999). "The use by wasps, bees and spiders of shells of Trigonephrus Pilsb. (Mollusca: Gasteropoda: Dorcasiidae) in desertic winter-rainfall areas in southern Africa". Journal of Arid Environments 43(2): 143-153. doi:10.1006/jare.1999.0549.
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