Lauriidae is a
family
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of
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. It is classified within the informal group
Orthurethra
Orthurethra is a clade of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.
In the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, Orthurethra is treated as an informal group and subcla ...
, itself belonging to the
clade
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Stylommatophora
Stylommatophora is an orderPhilippe Bouchet, Jean-Pierre Rocroi, Bernhard Hausdorf, Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano, Alexander Nützel, Pavel Parkhaev, Michael Schrödl and Ellen E. Strong. 2017. Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification ...
within the clade
Eupulmonata
Eupulmonata is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing snails. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are marine and some are saltmarsh snails that can tolerate salty conditions.
Linnean taxonomy
*Suborder Eupulmonat ...
(according to the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
The family Lauriidae has no subfamilies.
Genera
Genera include:
Lauriidae.
Fauna Europaea.
*'' Hemilauria'' Waldén, 1983
* ''Lauria
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'' Gray, 1840
* ''Leiostyla
''Leiostyla'' is a genus of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lauriidae.Falkner G., Obrdlík P., Castella E. & Speight M. C. D. 2001 ''Shelled Gastropoda of Western Europe''. München: Friedri ...
'' R. T. Lowe, 1852
;Genera brought into synonymy:
* ''Alvearella'' R. T. Lowe, 1852: synonym of ''Leiostyla'' R. T. Lowe, 1852
* ''Caucasica'' Caziot & Margier, 1909: synonym of ''Leiostyla'' R. T. Lowe, 1852 (invalid; not O. Boettger, 1877)
* ''Caucasipupa'' Pilsbry, 1926: synonym of ''Leiostyla (Euxinolauria)'' Lindholm, 1924: synonym of ''Leiostyla'' R. T. Lowe, 1852
* ''Charadrobia'' Albers, 1854: synonym of ''Leiostyla'' R. T. Lowe, 1852
* ''Eruca'' Swainson, 1840: synonym of ''Lauria'' Gray, 1840
* ''Eryma'' Albers, 1854: synonym of ''Leiostyla (Craticula)'' R. T. Lowe, 1852 represented as ''Leiostyla'' R. T. Lowe, 1852
* ''Euxinolauria'' Lindholm, 1924: synonym of ''Leiostyla'' R. T. Lowe, 1852 (junior synonym)
* ''Gastrodon'' R. T. Lowe, 1852: synonym of ''Lauria'' Gray, 1840
* ''Liostyla'' E. von Martens, 1860: synonym of ''Leiostyla'' R. T. Lowe, 1852
* ''Petrarca'' Pilsbry, 1922: synonym of ''Hemilauria (Senilauria)'' Pilsbry, 1928 represented as ''Hemilauria'' Waldén, 1983 (junior homonym of ''Petrarca'' Fowler, 1899 irripedia ''Lauria (Senilauria)'' Pilsbry, 1928 is a replacement name)
* ''Reinhardtia'' O. Boettger, 1878: synonym of ''Lauria'' Gray, 1840
References
External links
Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397
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