The Helicina (temporary name)is an unassigned
taxonomic
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infraorder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...
of air-breathing
land snail
A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known as ...
s,
semislug
Semi-slugs, also spelled semislugs, are land gastropods whose shells are too small for them to retract into, but not quite vestigial. The shell of some semi-slugs may not be easily visible on casual inspection, because the shell may be covered ...
s and
slug
Slug, or land slug, is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word ''slug'' is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a smal ...
s,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
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pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
molluscs
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in the suborder
Helicina
''Helicina'' is a genus of tropical and subtropical land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks.
This is the type genus of its family (Helicinidae) and subfamily ( Helicinae), as well as the superfamily Helicinoidea. This ...
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[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. nassignedHelicina. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057262 on 2020-08-25]
Superfamilies
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Coelociontoidea Iredale, 1937
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Papillodermatoidea
''Papilloderma altonagai'' is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the informal group Sigmurethra.
''Papilloderma altonagai'' is the only species in the genus ''Papilloderma'', which is the only genu ...
Wiktor, R. Martin & Castillejo, 1990
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Plectopyloidea
Plectopyloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the suborder Helicina.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Plectopyloidea Möllendorff, 1898. Accessed through: World Register ...
Möllendorff, 1898
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Punctoidea
Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.
Taxonomy
The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the cl ...
Morse, 1864
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Testacelloidea
The Testacelloidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as mollusc ...
Gray, 1840
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Urocoptoidea
Urocoptoidea is a Superfamily (zoology), superfamily of land snails, gastropods in the suborder Helicina (suborder), Helicina. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Urocoptoidea Pilsbry, 1898 (1868). Accessed through: World Register of Marine S ...
Pilsbry, 1898 (1868)
References
* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
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Stylommatophora