EUCONULIDAE Baker

Vermeulen, Jaap J., Liew, Thor-Seng & Schilthuizen, Menno, 2015, Additions to the knowledge of the land snails of Sabah (Malaysia, Borneo), including 48 new species, ZooKeys 531, pp. 1-139 : 62

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.531.6097

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scientific name

EUCONULIDAE Baker
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Taxon classification Animalia Stylommatophora Euconulidae

Family EUCONULIDAE Baker View in CoL

Short description.

Snails. Shell (very) small, dextral, conical, ovoid or sometimes lenticular. Sculpture inconspicuous, consisting of very fine spiral striation and/or radial riblets. Aperture without teeth or lamellae, peristome neither thickened nor reflected. Umbilicus closed, or covered by a thin callus extending from the peristome, or open, narrow (Family description adapted from Baker 1941, Solem 1966).

Habitat and distribution.

Generally dwelling in litter and low vegetation. Worldwide.