Planorboidea
Planorboidea is a superfamily of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks.[1]
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Planorbarius corneus, family Planorbidae | |
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Superfamily: | Planorboidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Family Planorbidae |
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.
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Physella acuta, family Physidae
References
- Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- 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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