See text The family Pomatiidae is a taxonomic family of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that can be found over the warmer parts of the Old World.

This family is a lineage closely related to the Littorinidae (periwinkles) common in coastal habitat.

They have adapted to terrestrial life and are thus sometimes called "land winkles".

[1] They are defined by a chalky operculum at the rear end of the body, the shape of their thick shell and their mouth and a characteristic spiral sculpture.

According to the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), the family Pomatiidae consisted of two subfamilies:[2] Genera within the family Pomatiidae include: