Rhytidoidea
| Rhytidoidea | |
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| A Powelliphanta augusta from the upper Waimangaroa River. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Rhytidoidea Pilsbry, 1893 |
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The Rhytidoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[1]
This taxonomy was based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.[2]
Taxonomy
Families within the superfamily Rhytidoidea are as follows:
- Family Rhytididae Pilsbry, 1893
- Family Chlamydephoridae Cockerell, 1935
- Family Haplotrematidae H.B. Baker, 1925
- Family Scolodontidae H.B. Baker, 1925
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1-2).
- ↑ H. Nordsieck (1986). "The system of the Stylommatophora (Gastropoda), with special regard to the systematic position of the Clausiliidae, II. Importance of the shell and distribution". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 117 (1-3): 93–116.
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