Labyrinthidae is a family 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,
terrestrial 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 ...
mollusks in the superfamily
Helicoidea
Helicoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.
Taxonomy 2005 taxonomy
There are 19 families within the superfamily Helicoidea according to the ta ...
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[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Labyrinthidae Borrero, Sei, D. G. Robinson & Rosenberg, 2017. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1057804 on 2021-01-03]
Genera
* ''
Isomeria''
Albers, 1850
* ''
Labyrinthus
''Labyrinthus'' is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Labyrinthidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Labyrinthus H. Beck, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ...
''
H. Beck, 1837
;Genera brought into synonymy:
* ''Ambages''
Gude, 1912 : synonym of
Labyrinthus H. Beck, 1837 (junior synonym)
* ''Lampadion''
Röding, 1798 : synonym of
Labyrinthus H. Beck, 1837
* ''Lyrostoma''
Swainson, 1840 : synonym of
Labyrinthus H. Beck, 1837
References
External links
Sei M., Robinson D.G., Geneva A.J. & Rosenberg G. (2017). Doubled helix: Sagdoidea is the overlooked sister group of Helicoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122(4): 697-728
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Helicoidea