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Superfamily of gastropods

Achatinoidea
Giant East African Snail, Achatina fulica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Swainson, 1840
Families

The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the suborder Achatinina.

2005 taxonomy

According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 there are four families within the superfamily Achatinoidea, that is based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.

2017 taxonomy

Fontanilla et al. recognized Subulinidae as not monophyletic in 2017 and they classified Subulininae within Achatinidae. This is also the taxonomy followed in the MolluscaBase/World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):

References

  1. ^ "Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840". MolluscaBase. 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
  3. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. 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" (PDF). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 117 (1–3): 93–116. Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich; Naggs, Fred; Wade, Christopher Mark (2017). "Molecular phylogeny of the Achatinoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114: 382–385. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.014. PMID 28647619.
Taxon identifiers
Achatinoidea


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