Xanthonychoidea Explained

Xanthonychoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, land slugs and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the clade Stylommatophora.

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

The taxon Xanthonychoidea was not used in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005. The family Xanthonychidae was placed within the superfamily Helicoidea.

2012 taxonomy

Thompson & Naranjo-García (2012) described a new family Echinichidae and placed it to the superfamily Xanthonychoidea.[1]

Families within the Xanthonychoidea include:

Notes and References

  1. Thompson F. G. & Naranjo-García E. (2012). "Echinichidae, a new family of dart-bearing helicoid slugs from Mexico, with the description of a new genus and three new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychoidea)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(2): 197-208. . preview.

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