Biology:Xanthonychoidea
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Short description: Superfamily of gastropods
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| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata clade Stylommatophora informal group Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Xanthonychoidea Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879[1]
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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, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel; Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. 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 für Molluskenkunde 141(2): 197-208. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/197-208. preview.
Wikidata ☰ Q8043063 entry
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