Ferussaciidae

Ferussaciidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Achatinoidea.

Ferussaciidae has been declared a nomen protectum.

[3] The distribution of Ferussaciidae includes Africa to Europe and the Near East, tropical Americas, Hawaii and tropical Asia.

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

[5] In this family, the number of haploid chromosomes lies between 26 and 30 (according to the values in this table).

Several members of the family Ferussaciidae. Sketches from 1856.