Aillyidae

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Aillyidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Aillyoidea

H. B. Baker, 1955[1]
Family:
Aillyidae

H. B. Baker, 1955[1]
Synonyms

see text

Aillyidae is a

mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[2]

Aillyidae is the only family in the superfamily Aillyoidea.[2]

This family and the genus is named in honor of Swedish

malacologist Adolf d'Ailly (1855-1927).[citation needed
]

Taxonomy

The family Aillyidae is classified within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).[2] This family has no subfamilies.[2]

Prestonellidae has been tentatively placed as a synonym of Aillyidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[2] Herbert & Mitchell (2009)[3] have moved Prestonellidae to the superfamily Orthalicoidea.[3]

Genera

References

  1. ^ a b Baker H. B. (1955). "Heterurethrous and aulocopod". The Nautilus 68(4): 109-112.
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  4. ^ a b c Odhner N. H. (1927). "Aillya camerunensis n. gen., n. sp. An African bulimuloid snail.". Arkiv för Zoologi 19a(20): 1.
  5. ^ Schileyko A. A. (1999). "Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 3: Partulidae, Aillyidae, Bulimulidae, Orthalicidae, Megaspiridae, Urocoptidae". Ruthenica (Suppl. 2): 272.