Xanthonychoidea
| Xanthonychoidea | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Xanthonychoidea Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879[1] |
Xanthonychoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, land slugs and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy
The taxon Xanthonychoidea was not used in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[2] The family Xanthonychidae was placed within the superfamily Helicoidea.[2]
2012 taxonomy
Thompson & Naranjo-García (2012) described a new family Echinichidae and placed it to the superfamily Xanthonychoidea.[3]
Families within the Xanthonychoidea include:
- Echinichidae
- Xanthonychidae
References
- ↑ Strebel & Pfeffer (1879). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Fauna mexicanischer Land- und Süsswasser Conchylien, 4: 25.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ Thompson F. G. & Naranjo-García E. (2012). "Echinichidae, a new family of dart-bearing helicoid slugs from Mexico, with the description of a new genus and three new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychoidea)". Archiv fur Molluskenkunde 141(2): 197-208. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/197-208. preview.