Punctoidea

Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.

Punctoidea
A live individual of Discus rotundatus in the family Discidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Punctoidea
Morse, 1864
Families

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Punctidae
Charopidae
Cystopeltidae
Discidae
Endodontidae
Helicodiscidae
Oreohelicidae

Taxonomy

The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata. As of 2017, it contains the following families:[1]

References
  1. Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 10 January 2019.


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