Helicarionoidea

Helicarionoidea

Helicarionoidea

Superfamily of gastropods

Helicarionoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Limacoidei.[2]

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Families ...

Families

There are three families within the superfamily Helicarionoidea:[2]

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:[3]

 limacoid clade 

Genera

Genera of helicarionoids unassigned to families include:

  • Pseudosaphtia de Winter, 2008[4]
  • Saphtia de Winter, 2008[4]
  • Vanmolia de Winter, 2008[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Bourguignat J. R. (1877). "Description de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suive d'une classification des families et des genres de Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen". Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse 3(1): 49-101. page 64.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    Hausdorf B. (March 2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
  4. [4]
    de Winter A. J. (2008). "Redefinition of Thapsia Albers, 1860, and description of three more helicarionoid genera from western Africa (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen. 82.
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