Plectopyloidea
| Plectopyloidea | |
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| Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Sculptaria sculpturata, family Sculptariidae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Plectopyloidea Möllendorff, 1898 |
| Families | |
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Plectopyloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[1]
Families
The superfamily Plectopyloidea consists of the following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Family Plectopylidae Möllendorff, 1898
- Family Corillidae Pilsbry, 1905 - with only one genus Corilla
- Family Sculptariidae Degner, 1923 - with only one genus Sculptaria
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).
Further reading
- McMichael, D.F. 1959. A new genus and species of land snail from Nth. Queensland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1: 31–32 [13 Nov. 1959]
- Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 pp. xii 408.
- Solem, A. 1973. Craterodiscus McMichael, 1959, a camaenid land shell from Queensland. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 377–385
- Solem, A. 1973. Convergence in pulmonate radulae. The Veliger 15: 165–171
- Stanisic, J. 1998. Family Corillidae. pp. 1110–1112 in Beesley, P.L., Ross, G.J.B. & Wells, A. (eds). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 5 Part B pp. 565–1234.
- Tillier, S. 1989. Comparative morphology, phylogeny and classification of land snails and slugs (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora). Malacologia 30: 1–303