Elasmognatha is a
taxonomic grouping, a
clade, of air-breathing
land snails and
slugs,
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
pulmonate gastropod molluscs
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is estim ...
.
A number of species in this taxonomic group are endangered.
Taxonomy
In the
taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005,
Elasmognatha is treated as a clade within the larger clade
Stylommatophora.
The following two superfamilies and families have been recognized in
the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
*superfamily
Succineoidea
**family
Succineidae
*superfamily
Athoracophoroidea
**family
Athoracophoridae
Athoracophoridae, common name the leaf-veined slugs, are a family of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora, the stalk-eyed snails and slugs. Many of the species have an attractive p ...
References
Stylommatophora
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