| Limacoidea | |
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| A live individual of Limax maximus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra clade limacoid clade |
| Superfamily: | Limacoidea Lamarck, 1801[1] |
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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.
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The following four families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
A cladogram shows the phylogenic relation of this superfamily to other superfamilies in the limacoid clade:[2]
| limacoid clade |
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