Urocyclidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, semi-slugs and land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Helicarionoidea. Some species within this family make and use love darts before mating.

Distribution

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

Taxonomy

The family Urocyclidae consists of 3 subfamilies:

Genera

The following genera are recognised in the family Urocyclidae: Tribe Dendrolimacini Tribe Leptichnini Tribe Upembellini tribe Urocyclini

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationship of this family to other families in the limacoid clade: