Milacidae

Milacidae is a family of air-breathing, keeled, land slugs. These are shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Parmacelloidea.

Milacidae
Tandonia budapestensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Parmacelloidea
Family:	Milacidae Ellis, 1926
Diversity[1][2]
2 genera, about 50 species, less than 50 species

This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Distribution

The distribution of the Milacidae includes the western Palearctic region.^[3]

Anatomy

In the Milacidae family, the number of haploid chromosomes ranges from 31 to 35 (according to the values in this table).^[4]

Genera

Genera within the family Milacidae include:

• Milax Gray, 1855 - type genus
• Tandonia Lessona & Pollonera, 1882

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to the other families in the limacoid clade:^[3]

limacoid clade	Staffordioidea Staffordiidae Dyakioidea Dyakiidae Gastrodontoidea Pristilomatidae Chronidae Euconulidae Trochomorphidae Gastrodontidae Oxychilidae Parmacelloidea Trigonochlamydidae Parmacellidae Milacidae Zonitoidea Zonitidae Helicarionoidea Helicarionidae Ariophantidae Urocyclidae Limacoidea Vitrinidae Boettgerillidae Limacidae Agriolimacidae