Planorboidea

Planorboidea is a superfamily of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks.[1]

Planorboidea
Planorbarius corneus, family Planorbidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea

Families

Family Planorbidae
Family Physidae

All of the gastropods in this superfamily are sinistral in shell coiling.

The monophyly of Planorboidea was confirmed by Albrecht et al. (2007).[2]

Thjs superfamily has now been recognised as a synonym of Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815.

Physella acuta, family Physidae

References
  1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  2. Albrecht C., Kuhn K. & Streit B. (2007). "A molecular phylogeny of Planorboidea (Gastropoda, Pulmonata): insights from enhanced taxon sampling". Zoologica Scripta 36: 27-39. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00258.x.
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