Achatinoidea
| Achatinoidea | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Giant East African Snail, Achatina fulica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840 |
The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[1]
Taxonomy
According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 there are four families within the superfamily Achatinoidea,[1] that is based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.[1][2]
- Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
- Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
- Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999
- Family Subulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877
References
- 1 2 3 Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
- ↑ Nordsieck H. (1986). "The system of the Stylommatophora (Gastropoda), with special regard to the systematic position of the Clausiliidae, II. Importance of the shell and distribution". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 117 (1–3): 93–116.. abstract.
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