{{Short description|Family of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Helicophanta gloriosa Berenty 2 070304.jpg | image_caption = A live individual of ''Helicophanta gloriosa'' | taxon = Acavidae | authority = Pilsbry, 1895 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''See text'' }}
'''Acavidae''' is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Rhytidoidea.<ref>MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871059 on 2024-12-06</ref>
== Anatomy == In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 35 (according to the values in this table).<ref name="Barker">Barker G. M.: Gastropods on Land: ''Phylogeny, Diversity and Adaptive Morphology''. in Barker G. M. (ed.): ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WlvX-9Wt0toC&hl The biology of terrestrial molluscs]''. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, {{ISBN|0-85199-318-4}}. 1-146, cited pages: 139 and 142.</ref>
== Genera == The family Acavidae has no subfamilies.
Genera in the family Acavidae include:<ref>http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Acavidae cited 11 October 2008</ref> * ''Acavus'' <small>Montfort, 1810</small> * ''Ampelita'' <small>Beck, 1837</small> * ''Embertoniphanta'' <small>Groh & Poppe, 2002</small> * ''Eurystyla'' <small>Ancey, 1887</small> * ''Helicophanta'' <small>Férussac, 1821</small> * ''Oligospira'' <small>Ancey, 1887</small> * † ''Pebasiconcha'' <small>Wesselingh & Gittenberger, 1999</small> - with the only species † ''Pebasiconcha immanis'' Wesselingh & Gittenberger, 1999<ref name="Wesselingh 2006">Wesselingh F. P. (2006). "Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia". ''Scripta Geologica'' '''133''': 19-290. Figure 274. [http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/209728 abstract], [http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/41346 PDF]</ref> * ''Reticulapex'' <small>Emberton & Pearce, 2000</small> * ''Stylodonta'' <small>De Cristofori & Jan, 1832</small> ;Genera brought into synonymy: * ''Acavella'' <small>Jousseaume, 1894</small>: synonym of ''Oligospira'' <small>Ancey, 1887</small> * ''Columplica'' <small>W. Hartmann, 1843</small>: synonym of ''Stylodonta'' <small>De Cristofori & Jan, 1832</small> * ''Poecilostylus'' <small>Pilsbry, 1890</small>: synonym of ''Eurystyla'' <small>Ancey, 1887</small> * ''Stylodon'' <small>H. Beck, 1837</small>: synonym of ''Stylodonta'' <small>De Cristofori & Jan, 1832</small>
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