The Pupilloideiis an

taxonomic Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. A ...

infraorder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

of air-breathing land snails,

semislug Semi-slugs, also spelled semislugs, are land gastropods whose shells are too small for them to retract into, but not quite vestigial. The shell of some semi-slugs may not be easily visible on casual inspection, because the shell may be covere ...

s and slugs,

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

molluscs 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 esti ...

in the suborder

Helicina ''Helicina'' is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks. This is the type genus of its family ( Helicinidae) and subfamily ( Helicinae), as well as the superfamily Helicinoidea. Thi ...

.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pupilloidei. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057256 on 2021-03-13

Superfamilies

* Azecoidea H. Watson, 1920 * Chondrinoidea Steenberg, 1925 * †

Dendropupoidea Dendropupoidea is an extinct superfamily of fossil land snails in the clade Caenogastropoda Caenogastropoda is a taxonomic clade, a large diverse group which are mostly sea snails and other marine gastropod mollusks, but also includes some fr ...

Wenz, 1938 *

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 * Ag ...

W. Turton, 1831 ;Synonyms: * Achatinelloidea Gulick, 1873: synonym of Pupilloidea W. Turton, 1831 * Cochlicopoidea Pilsbry, 1900 (1879): synonym of Pupilloidea W. Turton, 1831 * Enoidea B. B. Woodward, 1903 (1880): synonym of Pupilloidea W. Turton, 1831 * Partuloidea Pilsbry, 1900: synonym of Pupilloidea W. Turton, 1831

References

* 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

External links

Saadi, A. J.; Mordan, P. B.; Wade, C. M. (2021). Molecular phylogeny of the Orthurethra (Panpulmonata: Stylommatophora). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
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