Gastrodontoidea is a
taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have gastropod shell, shel ...
s,
terrestrial pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s in the
limacoid clade.
Taxonomy
According to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks (Gastropods are a taxonomic class of animals which consists of snails and sl ...
, families in this superfamily include:
*
Gastrodontidae
*
Chronidae
*
Euconulidae
*
Oxychilidae
Oxychilidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Gastrodontoidea.
Distribution
The distribution of Oxychilidae includes the Nearctic, western-Palearctic, eastern-Pale ...
*
Pristilomatidae
*
Trochomorphidae
* Fossil taxa probably belonging to the Gastrodontoidea are:
** Subfamily †
Archaeozonitinae Pfeffer, 1930
[ Pfeffer G. J. (1930). "Zur Kentniss tertiärer Landschnecken." ''Geologische und Paleontologische Abhandlungen'' new series, 17(3): 1-230., plates 1-3. page 17, page 10 and page .]
*** † ''
Archaeozonites'' Sandberger, 1873 - type genus of Archaeozonitinae
** Subfamily †
Grandipatulinae Pfeffer, 1930
*** † ''
Grandipatula'' Cossmann, 1889 - type genus of Grandipatulinae
** Subfamily †
Palaeoxestininae Pfeffer, 1930
*** † ''
Palaeoxestina'' Wenz, 1919 - type genus of Palaeoxestininae
Cladogram
The following
cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek language, Greek ''clados'' "branch" and ''gramma'' "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms. A cladogram is not, however, an Phylogenetic tree, evolutionary tree because it does not s ...
shows the
phylogenic relationships of this superfamily with the other superfamilies and families within the
limacoid clade:
[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. ]
JSTOR
References
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Stylommatophora
Gastropod superfamilies
Taxa named by George Washington Tryon