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Planorboidea
Planorbarius corneus, family Planorbidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superfamily: Planorboidea
Rafinesque, 1815
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

informal group Pulmonata
informal group Basommatophora

clade Hygrophila
Families

Family Planorbidae
Family Physidae

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

The gastropods in this superfamily are all sinistral in shell coiling.

The monophyly of Planorboidea has been confirmed by Albrecht et al. (2007).

Indoplanorbis exustus, family Planorbidae
Physella acuta, family Physidae

References

  1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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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