Limacoidea

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Limacoidea
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A live individual of Limax maximus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: Limacoidea
Lamarck, 1801[1]
Families

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Limacoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of medium-sized to large, air-breathing land slugs and snails. They are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

The Helixarionoidea were previously placed in this superfamily.

Families

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The following four families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

Cladogram

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A cladogram shows the phylogenic relation of this superfamily to other superfamilies in the limacoid clade:[2]

limacoid clade

References

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  1. ^ (in French) Lamarck J.-B. 1801. Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'après la considération de leurs… Paris, Detreville, VIII: 1-432. Page 62, originally spelled under vernacular name "es Limaciers".
  2. ^ 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. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., JSTOR.

Further reading

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