Testacelloidea
| Testacelloidea | |
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| Drawing of the shelled slug, Testacella haliotidea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Testacelloidea Gray, 1840 |
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The Testacelloidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[1]
Taxonomy
The families within the Testacelloidea are as follows:[1]
- Family Testacellidae Gray, 1840
- Family Oleacinidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
- Family Spiraxidae H. B. Baker, 1939
This taxonomy was based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986,[2] and the publication by Schileyko in 2000.[3]
References
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ H. Nordsieck (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.
- ↑ A.A. Schileyko (1998–2003). "Treatise on recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs". Ruthenica. suppl. 2: 1–1626.
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