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Urocoptoidea

Urocoptoidea
Holospira elizabethae shell.jpg
Illustration of a shell of Holospira elizabethae, in the family Urocoptidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Heterobranchia
Superfamily: Urocoptoidea

Urocoptoidea is a superfamily of land snails, gastropods in the informal group Sigmurethra.

In 2005, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, the families Urocoptidae and Cerionidae were classified within the superfamily Orthalicoidea .

In 2008, the superfamily Urocoptoidea was established by the malacologist Uit de Weerd, based on molecular phylogeny research.

In 2012, Thompson established a new family, the Epirobiidae.

Thus as of 2012, there are three families within the superfamily Urocoptoidea:


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