Achatinoidea

The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the suborder Achatinina.[1][2]

Achatinoidea
Giant East African Snail, Achatina fulica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Achatinina
Superfamily: Achatinoidea
Swainson, 1840
Families

2005 taxonomy

According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 there are four families within the superfamily Achatinoidea,[3] that is based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.[3][4]

  • Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
  • Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
  • Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999
  • Family Subulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877

2017 taxonomy

Fontanilla et al. recognized Subulinidae as not monophyletic in 2017 and they classified Subulininae within Achatinidae.[5] This is also the taxonomy followed in the MolluscaBase/World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):[1][2]

  • Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
  • Family Aillyidae H. B. Baker, 1955
  • Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
  • Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999

References
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  1. "Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840". MolluscaBase. 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
  2. "Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
  3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
  4. Nordsieck, H. (1986). "The system of the Stylommatophora (Gastropoda), with special regard to the systematic position of the Clausiliidae, II. Importance of the shell and distribution" (PDF). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 117 (1–3): 93–116. Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich; Naggs, Fred; Wade, Christopher Mark (2017). "Molecular phylogeny of the Achatinoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114: 382–385. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.014. PMID 28647619.


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