Clausilioidea

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

Clausilioidea
Cochlodina laminata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Clausilioidei
Superfamily:	Clausilioidea J. E. Gray, 1855

This classification was based on different studies dealing with the Clausiliidae, published by H. Nordsieck in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1994, 1997 and 1998.

Taxonomy

• Family Clausiliidae Gray, 1855
• † Family Anadromidae Wenz, 1940
• † Family Filholiidae Wenz, 1923
• † Family Palaeostoidae H. Nordsieck, 1986

References

1. Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).

• Gray, J. E. (1855). Catalogue of Pulmonata or air-breathing Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum, Part I. Taylor & Francis, London. 192 pp.