Parmacellidae is a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks within the superfamily Parmacelloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
| Parmacellidae Temporal range: ?Upper Eocene, Lower Pliocene-Recent[1] | |
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| Parmacella valenciennii | |
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| Two views of a live individual of Cryptella canariensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Superfamily: | Parmacelloidea |
| Family: | Parmacellidae P. Fischer, 1856 (1855) |
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See text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cryptellidae Gray, 1855 (nomen oblitum)[2] | |
This family has no subfamilies (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Slugs in this family make and use love darts made of chitin.
The distribution of the family Parmacellidae includes the western Palearctic,[3] and ranges from the Canary Islands and Europe to Afghanistan.[1]
Genera within family Parmacellidae include:
The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family with the other families in the limacoid clade:[3]
