Elonidae

Elonidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods mollusks in the superfamily Helicoidea.

This family is within the clade Eupulmonata (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

Subfamilies and genera

The family Elonidae consists of two subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

• Eloninae Gittenberger, 1977
• Klikiinae H. Nordsieck, 1986

Genera

Genera in the family Elonidae include:

• † Cyrtochilus <small>F. Sandberger, 1875</small>
• † Eurystrophe <small>Gude, 1911</small>
• †Joossia <small>Pfeffer, 1930</small>
• † Lychnopsis <small>Vidal, 1917 </small>
• † Megalocochlea <small>Wenz, 1919</small>
• † Papillotopsis <small>H. Binder, 2017</small>
• † Puisseguria <small>Schlickum, 1975</small>

Eloninae

• The type genus is Elona H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. It is a monotypic genus, with only one species: Elona quimperiana
• † Galactochiloides <small>Wenz, 1919</small>
• Norelona <small>Nordsieck, 1986</small>
• Norelona pyrenaica <small>(Draparnaud, 1805)</small>
• † Tropidomphalus <small>Pilsbry, 1895</small>

† Klikiinae

• † Apula <small>C. R. Boettger, 1909</small>
• † Klikia <small>Pilsbry, 1895</small>
• † Pseudochloritis <small>C. R. Boettger, 1909</small>

Synonyms:

• Sterna <small>Albers, 1850</small>: synonym of Elona <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855</small> ((Invalid: junior homonym of Sterna <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> [Aves]))
• † Steklovia <small>Schlickum & Strauch, 1972</small>: synonym of † Apula <small>C. R. Boettger, 1909</small> † (junior subjective synonym)

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