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<mods:titleid="7A0E7D156BBD1EAAAADF8463C1475CF5">Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalogue</mods:title>
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<mods:affiliationid="8B24187497E76DB09DD83557FBC59CF5">Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India & Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun 248 002, Uttarakhand, India</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="630E9D0E5987624AE1E581BBE8AFED30">Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India</mods:affiliation>
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Shell with a complex gas exchange system consisting of a common external sutural tube and several extremely narrow, perpendicularly running microtunnels, formed by the outermost shell layer (
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, and as a family of its own right. The complex gas exchange system, combined with the unique position of the bursa copulatrix (both are important synapomorphic characters), seems to justify the distinction of this group as an independent family.
