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Limacoidea

Limacoidea
Great Grey Slug, curled up.jpg
A live individual of Limax maximus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
clade limacoid clade
Superfamily: Limacoidea
Lamarck, 1801
Families

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Limacoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of medium-sized to large, air-breathing land slugs and snails. They are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Stylommatophora (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).

The Helixarionoidea were previously placed in this superfamily.

The following four families have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

A cladogram shows the phylogenic relation of this superfamily to other superfamilies in the limacoid clade:


Staffordiidae

Dyakiidae

Pristilomatidae

Chronidae

Euconulidae

Trochomorphidae

Gastrodontidae

Oxychilidae

Trigonochlamydidae

Parmacellidae

Milacidae

Zonitidae


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