Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea.

[2] Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.

[citation needed] The Urocyclidae are distributed in the Afrotropical realm, including Madagascar, the Comores and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea.

[3][4] The family Urocyclidae consists of 3 subfamilies:[2] The following genera are recognised in the family Urocyclidae:[2] Tribe Dendrolimacini Tribe Leptichnini Tribe Upembellini tribe Urocyclini The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family to other families in the limacoid clade:[3] Staffordiidae Dyakiidae Pristilomatidae Chronidae Euconulidae Trochomorphidae Gastrodontidae Oxychilidae Trigonochlamydidae Parmacellidae Milacidae Zonitidae Helicarionidae Ariophantidae Urocyclidae Vitrinidae Boettgerillidae Limacidae Agriolimacidae