Stylommatophora

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Stylommatophora
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Recent
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
A. Schmidt, 1855
Diversity[1][2]
about 20,500 species

Stylommatophora is an

gastropod molluscs. This taxon includes most land snails and slugs
.

The two strong synapomorphies of Stylommatophora are a long pedal gland placed beneath a membrane and two pairs of retractile tentacles (Dayrat & Tillier).[citation needed]

Several families in this group contain species of snails and slugs that create love darts.

Stylommatophora are known from the Cretaceous period up to the present day.[4]

2005 taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) based on evolutionary ancestry is the clade Stylommatophora in clade Eupulmonata within informal group Pulmonata. It uses unranked clades for taxa above the rank of superfamily (replacing the ranks suborder, order, superorder and subclass) and the traditional Linnaean approach for all taxa below the rank of superfamily.

The

polyphyletic
.

clade Elasmognatha

clade Orthurethra

  • Superfamily
    Partuloidea
  • Superfamily
    Achatinelloidea
  • Superfamily
    Cochlicopoidea
  • Superfamily Pupilloidea
  • Superfamily
    Enoidea

informal group Sigmurethra

  • Superfamily Punctoidea
  • Superfamily Sagdoidea
  • "

    limacoid clade
    " (within the Sigmurethra)

    (not in limacoid clade, but is within the Sigmurethra)

    Previous taxonomy

    References

    1. ^ Solem A. (1978). Classification of the land Mollusca. In: Fretter V. & Peake J. (eds). Pulmonates, Vol. 2A. London, Academic Press, 49–97.
    2. .
    3. ^ Philippe 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 of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families. Malacologia, 61(1-2): 1-526.
    4. .