Helicoidea

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Helicoidea
Helix pomatia, the Roman snail
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Famillies

See text.

Helicoidea is a

mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora
.

Taxonomy

2017 taxonomy and latest developments[1][2][3][4]

The Bouchet et al. 2017[1] nomenclator provides an up to date system of Helicoidea. The system is in some parts preliminary, as the authors relied on unpublished (as of 2023) phylogenomic study, which did not include all New World taxa. They classified Epiphragmophoridae, Helminthoglyptidae, Humboldtianidae, Monadeniidae and Xanthonychidae (provisionally also Lysinoidae and Echinichidae) as subfamilies of the last taxon, because there are no deep splits between them in the cited unpublished study (see also Koene & Schulenburg 2005[5]).

Cepolidae, Labyrinthidae and Thysanophoridae constitute the sister group of the remaining Helicoidea.[1]

2015 taxonomy

Razkin et al. (2015)

Cochlicellidae was including within the Geomitridae
family as a tribe (Cochlicellini).

The classification proposed for Western Palaearctic Helicoidea is as follows:

2012 taxonomy

Thompson & Naranjo-García (2012) described a new family

Echinichidae and placed it to the superfamily Xanthonychoidea.[7] Therefore, the family Xanthonychidae
was moved from Helicoidea to Xanthonychoidea.

2005 taxonomy

There are 19 families within the superfamily Helicoidea according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.[8][9]

According to H. Nordsieck[10] the family Xanthonychidae (sensu Hausdorf & Bouchet) is probably polyphyletic (contains several different lineages) and therefore should be divided into several families.

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