Architectibranchia is a

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of marine

snail A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusc Mollusca is a phylum of protostome, protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum ...

s. It was originally established containing the superfamilies

Acteonoidea Acteonoidea is a superfamily of sea snails, or bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks. Taxonomy In the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005), the superfamily Acteonoidea has been included into the informal group "Lower Heterobranchia" (He ...

, Ringiculoidea, and Diaphanoidea.Gofas, S. (2010). Architectibranchia. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411857 on 2010-12-26

2005 taxonomy

Architectibranchia was not used in the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) and this taxon name has been listed as an

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2009 taxonomy

Clade Architectibranchia was reinstated by Malaquias et al. in 2009;Malaquias M. A. E., Dodds J. M., Bouchet P. & Reid D. G. (2009). "A molecular phylogeny of the Cephalaspidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Euthyneura): Architectibranchia redefined and Runcinacea reinstated". ''

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'' 38(1): 23-41. . they limited the taxon to Acteonoidea and Ringiculoidea. There are five families within the clade Architectibranchia: * Acteonidae *

Aplustridae The Aplustridae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails or bubble snails, Marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acteonoidea. The former name of this family, Hydatinidae (Pilsbry, 1893) has ...

* Bullinidae *

Ringiculidae Ringiculidae are a family (biology), family of small deep water sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia.Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., ...

* Notodiaphanidae

2010 taxonomy

Taxon Architectibranchia is not explicitly mentioned in the molecular analysis by Jörger et al. (2010).Jörger K. M., Stöger I., Kano Y., Fukuda H., Knebelsberger T. & Schrödl M. (2010). "On the origin of Acochlidia and other enigmatic euthyneuran gastropods, with implications for the systematics of Heterobranchia". ''

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'' 10: 323. . However, some of its members were included: Acteonoidea was moved to

Lower Heterobranchia Lower Heterobranchia, also known as the Allogastropoda, is a group of rather specialized, highly evolved sea slugs and sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc, mollusks within the Subclass (biology), subclass Heterobranchia.WoRMS (20 ...

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