Limacoidea | |
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A live individual of Limax maximus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
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.
The following four families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Acladogram shows the phylogenic relation of this superfamily to other superfamilies in the limacoid clade:[2]
Limacoidea |
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