Ferussaciidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413333 on 2020-05-02

This family has no subfamilies. The family name Ferussaciidae is from 1883 and therefore it is more recent than the family name Cecilioididae Mörch, 1864. However, the latter has been declared as a nomen oblitum because it had not been used for over 100 years. Ferussaciidae has been declared a nomen protectum.

Distribution The distribution of Ferussaciidae includes Africa to Europe and the Near East, tropical Americas, Hawaii and tropical Asia."Family summary for Ferussaciidae". AnimalBase, last modified 16 August 2007, accessed 7 April 2011.

Fossil record Cecilioides sommeri is the family's oldest fossil record, dating from the Middle Paleocene of Brazil (Itaboraí Basin).

Anatomy In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, . 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.

Genera Genera within the family Ferussaciidae include: (The following unreferenced, unchecked genera are probably from Schileyko (1999)) Amphorella Lowe, 1852 Calaxis Letourneux & Bourguignat, 1887 Cecilioides Férussac, 1814 Coilostele Benson, 1864 Conollya Odhner, 1932 Cylichnidia R. T. Lowe, 1852 Digoniaxis Jousseaume, 1889 Ferussacia Risso, 1826 - type genus of the family Ferussaciidae"Genera in family Ferussaciidae" (n = 8). AnimalBase, accessed 7 April 2011. Geostilbia Crosse, 1867 Hohenwartiana Bourguignat, 1864 Karolus Folin, 1870 Pseudocalaxis Pallary, 1912 Sculptiferussacia Germain, 1911

References

Further reading

Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent Terrestrial Pulmonate Molluscs. Part 4 Draparnaudiidae, Caryodidae, Macrocyclidae, Acavidae, Clavatoridae, Dorcasiidae, Sculptariidae, Corillidae, Plectopylidae, Megalobulimidae, Strophocheilidae, Cerionidae, Achatinidae, Subulinidae, Glessulidae, Micractaeonidae, Ferrussaciidae". In: Ruthenica., Supplement, 2(4): 435–564, Moscow, ISSN 0136-0027.