Acavoidea Explained

The Acavoidea are a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.^[1]

This taxonomy was based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.^[2]

Taxonomy

Families within the superfamily Acavoidea are as follows:

• Family Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895
• Family Caryodidae Conolly, 1915
• Family Dorcasiidae Conolly, 1915
• Family Macrocyclidae Thiele, 1926
• Family Megomphicidae H.B. Baker, 1930
• Family Strophocheilidae Pilsbry, 1902

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. . Rocroi, J.-P. . 2005 . Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families . . 47 . 1-2 .
2. H. Nordsieck. The system of the Stylommatophora (Gastropoda), with special regard to the systematic position of the Clausiliidae, II. Importance of the shell and distribution. . 1986. 117. 1-3. 93–116.