Aciculidae


The Aciculidae are a family of small land snails that have opercula.
Even though Aciculidae are land snails, they live in rather wet conditions, among mosses and dead leaves and they have sometimes been described as "winkles come ashore".

Taxonomy

Previously this family was placed in the infraorder Littorinimorpha, in the suborder Hypsogastropoda in the order Sorbeoconcha in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Ponder & Lindberg (1997).
The family Aciculidae is in the informal group Architaenioglossa, belonging to the clade Caenogastropoda,. This family has no subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
In the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet et al., 2017), it was placed under Cyclophoroidea.

Genera

Genera within the family Aciculidae include:Acicula W. Hartmann, 1821 - the needle snail, type genusMenkia Boeters, E. Gittenberger & Subai, 1985Platyla Moquin-Tandon, 1856Renea Nevill, 1880Cretatortulosa gignens 2020