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
[edit | edit source]The following four families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Cladogram
[edit | edit source]A cladogram shows the phylogenic relation of this superfamily to other superfamilies in the limacoid clade:[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ (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".
- ^ 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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