Acavoidea
| Acavoidea | |
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| A live individual of Helicophanta gloriosa, family Acavidae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Informal group: | Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Acavoidea Pilsbry, 1895 |
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The Acavoidea are a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[1]
This taxonomy was based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]Families within the superfamily Acavoidea are as follows:
- Family Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895
- Family Caryodidae Conolly, 1915
- Family Dorcasiidae Conolly, 1915
- Family Macrocyclidae Thiele, 1926
- Family Megomphicidae H.B. Baker, 1930
- Family Strophocheilidae Pilsbry, 1902
References
[edit]- ^ 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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