Helicinoidea

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Helicinoidea
Alcadia maxima
Alcadia maxima
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Neritopsina
Order: Neritoida
Superfamily: Helicinoidea
Family

Helicinidae

Helicinoidea is a taxonomic order of small land snails that have an operculum. In other words they are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks. They are in the superfamily Neritoidea and are quite closely related to the marine and freshwater nerites.

For more information, please see the family Helicinidae.


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