Amnicolidae

Amnicolidae
Drawing of the shell of Amnicola dalli with the operculum next to it
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Truncatelloidea
Family: Amnicolidae
Tryon, 1863
Diversity
About 200 freshwater species
Synonyms
  • Amnicolinae Tryon, 1863 superseded rank
  • Erhaiini G. M. Davis & Y.-H. Kuo, 1985
  • Kolhymamnicolidae Starobogatov, 1983
  • Lyogyrinae Pilsbry, 1916
  • Parabythinellinae Radoman, 1976
  • Pseudobythinellini G. M. Davis & C.-E. Chen, 1992

Amnicolidae is a family of small freshwater snails with a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea.

This family is in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). This family was previously considered to be a subfamily of Hydrobiidae.