Canariellidae

Canariellidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.^[1][2]

Canariellidae
A shell of Canariella plutonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Helicoidei
Superfamily:	Helicoidea
Family:	Canariellidae Iredale, 1915
Type genus
Canariella P. Hesse, 1918

Anatomy

The family is characterized by having a short flagellum and a stimulatory apparatus composed only of one to three single mucous glands (lacking dart or accessory sacs).^[2]

Taxonomy

The family Canariellidae consists of:

• Canariella P. Hesse, 1918
• Debeauxhelix Bacci, 1943
• Montserratina Ortiz de Zarate Lopez, 1946
• Schileykiella Manganelli, Sparacio & Giusti, 1989
• Tyrrheniellina Giusti & Manganelli, 1992