Urocoptoidea

Urocoptoidea
Shell of Holospira elizabethae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily: Urocoptoidea

Urocoptoidea is a superfamily of land snails, gastropods in the informal group Sigmurethra. cf[1]

The superfamily Urocoptoidea has been established by Uit de Weerd based on molecular phylogeny research in 2008.[2]

Families

There are two families within the superfamily Urocoptoidea:[2]

Those two families were classified within the superfamily Orthalicoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
  2. ^ a b Uit de Weerd D. R. (2008). "Delimitation and phylogenetics of the highly diverse land snail family Urocoptidae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) based on 28S rRNA sequence data: A reunion with Cerion". Journal of Molluscan Studies 74: 317-329. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyn023.