Pachychilidae Temporal range: Paleogene - recent
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Two shells of Pachychilus laevissimus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Pachychilidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1892[1] |
Type genus | |
Pachychilus I. Lea & H. C. Lea, 1851
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Diversity[2][3] | |
191-226 extant species | |
Synonyms | |
Pachychilidae, common name pachychilids, is a taxonomic family of freshwater snails, gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.[8]