Rhytididae Pilsbry, 1893

Herbert, D. G. & Moussalli, A., 2010, Revision of the larger cannibal snails (Natalina s. l.) of southern Africa - Natalina s. s., Afrorhytida and Capitina (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rhytididae), African Invertebrates 51 (1), pp. 1-1 : 21-22

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scientific name	Rhytididae Pilsbry, 1893
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Rhytididae Pilsbry, 1893 [February], in 1892–93: 135.

Paryphantinae Godwin-Austen, 1893 [October]: 8; Solem 1959: 147 (Paryphantidae).

Occirheneidae Iredale, 1939: 73.

Diagnosis: Shell globose to discoidal, minute to very large; occasionally reduced and shield-like; aperture lacking dentition; umbilicus open, except when shell is reduced

( Schizoglossa ). Pulmonary anatomy sigmurethrous, primary ureter closed, secondary ureter generally open; distal genitalia lacking accessory structures, epiphallus often present, flagellum usually absent; foot lacking peripodial groove, sole undivided, caudal pore and appendage absent; suprapedal gland well developed, lying above pedal musculature; jaw absent, radula beloglossan; buccal mass elongate, large and muscular; head and neck elongate. Carnivorous.

References

GODWIN-AUSTEN, H. H. 1893. On the molluscan genus Paryphanta and on the anatomy of P. hochstetteri Pfr. Proceedings of the malacological Society of London 1 (1): 5 - 9.

IREDALE, T. 1939. A review of the land Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 25: 1 - 88.

SOLEM, A. 1959. Systematics and zoogeography of the land and fresh-water Mollusca of the New Hebrides. Fieldiana: Zoology 43: 1 - 359.