Orthurethra is a
clade of air-breathing
land snails,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
s in the clade
Stylommatophora.
In the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, Orthurethra is treated as an informal group and subclade of
Stylommatophora.
In the revised taxonomy of 2017 this taxon is no longer supported and has been replaced by the infraorder
Pupilloidei.
[Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526]
Superfamilies and families
Superfamilies and families within the clade Orthurethra:
(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)
*Superfamily
Pupilloidea
Pupilloidea is a superfamily of small and very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the infraorder ''Pupilloidei'' .
Taxonomy
This superfamily contains the following families:
* Achatinellidae Gulick, 1873
* A ...
*
Achatinellidae
Achatinellidae is a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Taxonomy
It was previously the only family in the superfamily Achatinelloidea (according to the taxonom ...
Gulick, 1873
*
Agardhiellidae Harl & Páll-Gergely, 2017
*
Amastridae Pilsbry, 1910
*
Argnidae Hudec, 1965
*
Azecidae H. Watson, 1920
*
Cerastidae
Cerastidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the order Stylommatophora.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerastidae Wenz, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http ...
Wenz, 1923
*
Chondrinidae Steenberg, 1925
*
Cochlicopidae Pilsbry, 1900 (1879)
*†
Cylindrellinidae
*
Draparnaudiidae Solem, 1962
*
Enidae B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880)
*
Fauxulidae Harl & Páll-Gergely, 2017
*
Gastrocoptidae Pilsbry, 1918
*
Lauriidae Steenberg, 1925
*
Odontocycladidae Hausdorf, 1996
*
Orculidae Pilsbry, 1918
*
Pagodulinidae Pilsbry, 1924
*
Partulidae Pilsbry, 1900
*
Pleurodiscidae Wenz, 1923
*
Pupillidae
Pupillidae is a family of mostly minute, air-breathing, land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupillidae W. Turton, 1831. Accessed through: ...
W. Turton, 1831
*
Pyramidulidae Kennard & B. B. Woodward, 1914
*
Spelaeoconchidae A. J. Wagner, 1928
*
Spelaeodiscidae
Spelaeodiscidae is a family of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Spelaeodiscidae has ...
Steenberg, 1925
*
Strobilopsidae
Strobilopsidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Taxonomy
The family Strobilopsidae is classified within the informal group Orthurethra, itself belonging to the ...
Wenz, 1915
*
Truncatellinidae Steenberg, 1925
*
Valloniidae
Valloniidae is a taxonomic family of small and minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Valloniidae Morse, 1864. Accessed through: Worl ...
Morse, 1864
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Vertiginidae
Vertiginidae, common name the whorl snails, is a family of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the superfamily Pupilloidea.
Distribution
The distribution of the Vertiginidae is in the ...
Fitzinger, 1833
References
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Stylommatophora
Extant Cretaceous first appearances