Lithoglyphidae is a family of small freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks.
This family is in the superfamily Truncatelloidea and in the clade Littorinimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
[2] Taylor (1966),[3] Ponder & Warén (1988)[4] and Kabat & Hershler (1993)[5] considered this taxon as a subfamily Lithoglyphinae within Hydrobiidae.
[6] Bernasconi (1992)[8] considered this taxon as a tribe Lithoglyphini in the Hydrobiinae within Hydrobiidae.
[6] The family Lithoglyphidae consists of 2 subfamilies according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.