Amphibulimidae


Amphibulimidae is a taxonomic family of land snails in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.

Distribution

Amphibulimidae lives across the northern part of South America, Central America and the West Indies.

Taxonomy

2005

This taxon was placed as a subfamily Amphibuliminae within the family Orthalicidae according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). There was classified also semi-slug Peltella Gray, 1855 within Amphibuliminae and Peltellinae Gray, 1855 was considered as a synonym of Amphibuliminae.

2010

Breure et al. elevated Amphibuliminae to Amphibulimidae.

2012

Breure & Romero removed Peltella to subfamily Peltellinae within Bulimulidae.

Genera

Genera within the family Amphibulimidae include: