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Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Heterobranchia
Infraclassis: Euthyneura
Cohors: Tectipleura
Subcohors: Panpulmonata
SuperOrdo: Eupulmonata
Ordo: Stylommatophora
SubOrdo: Achatinina
Superfamilia: Achatinoidea

Familia: Ferussaciidae
Genera (13): Amphorella – Calaxis – Cecilioides – Coilostele – Conollya – Cylichnidia – Ferussacia – Geostilbia – Hohenwartiana – Karolus – Pseudocalaxis – Pyrgella – Sculptiferussacia
Name

Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
Synonyms

Ferrussacidae Bourguignat, 1883 (incorrect original spelling)
Ferrussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883 (incorrect spelling)

References
Links

Ferussaciidae in the World Register of Marine Species

Ferussaciidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea.[3][4]

This family has no subfamilies.[3] The family name Ferussaciidae is from 1883 and therefore it is more recent than the family name Cecilioididae Mörch, 1864. However, the latter has been declared as a nomen oblitum because it had not been used for over 100 years. Ferussaciidae has been declared a nomen protectum.[3]
Distribution

The distribution of Ferussaciidae includes Africa to Europe and the Near East, tropical Americas, Hawaii and tropical Asia.[1]
Fossil record

Cecilioides sommeri is the family's oldest fossil record, dating from the Middle Paleocene of Brazil (Itaboraí Basin).[5]
Anatomy

In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).[6]
Genera

Genera within the family Ferussaciidae include: (The following unreferenced, unchecked genera are probably from Schileyko (1999))

Amphorella Lowe, 1852[citation needed]
Calaxis Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887[7]
Cecilioides Férussac, 1814[3][7]
Several members of the family Ferussaciidae. Sketches from 1856.
Coilostele Benson, 1864[7]
Conollya Odhner, 1932[7]
Cylichnidia R. T. Lowe, 1852[citation needed]
Digoniaxis Jousseaume, 1889[citation needed]
Ferussacia Risso, 1826 - type genus of the family Ferussaciidae[3][7]
Geostilbia Crosse, 1867[citation needed]
Hohenwartiana Bourguignat, 1864[7]
Karolus Folin, 1870[citation needed]
Pseudocalaxis Pallary, 1912[citation needed]
Sculptiferussacia Germain, 1911[7]

References

"Family summary for Ferussaciidae". AnimalBase, last modified 16 August 2007, accessed 7 April 2011.
Bourguignat J. R. (1883). Historie malacologique de l'Abyssinie. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, ser. 6, 15 (Art. 2): 120.
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.
MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413333 on 2020-05-02
Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes de (2013). "Taxonomic revision of the fossil pulmonate mollusks of Itaboraí Basin (Paleocene), Brazil". Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. 53 (2): 5–46. doi:10.1590/S0031-10492013000200001.
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, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

"Genera in family Ferussaciidae" (n = 8). AnimalBase, accessed 7 April 2011.

Further reading
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Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocyclidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae, Subulinidae, Glessulidae, Micractaeonidae, Ferrussaciidae". In: Ruthenica., Supplement, 2(4): 435–564, Moscow, ISSN 0136-0027.

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