Clausilioidea

The Clausilioidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[1]

Clausilioidea
Cochlodina laminata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Clausilioidei
Superfamily: Clausilioidea
J. E. Gray, 1855

This classification was based on different studies dealing with the Clausiliidae, published by H. Nordsieck in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1994, 1997 and 1998.

Taxonomy

References

  1. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  • Gray, J. E. (1855). Catalogue of Pulmonata or air-breathing Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum, Part I. Taylor & Francis, London. 192 pp.


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