Craspedopomatidae
family of molluscs
Craspedopomatidae is a family of very small land snails with a gill and an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Architaenioglossa belonging to the clade Caenogastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
This family is not to be confused with the family of fossil sea snails with a similar name, Craspedostomatidae.
Genera
Genera in this family include:
Craspedopoma Pfeiffer, 1847, the type genus
†Physotrema Sandberger, 1875 (= Bolania)
References
Guide to the Systematic Distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum By British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology, John Edward Gray, British Museum (Natural History), Dept.
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