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Superfamily of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Urocoptoidea is a superfamily of land snails, gastropods in the suborder Helicina.[1]
Urocoptoidea | |
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Illustration of a shell of Holospira elizabethae, in the family Urocoptidae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Infraorder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
Families | |
In 2005, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, the families Urocoptidae and Cerionidae were classified within the superfamily Orthalicoidea .[2]
In 2008, the superfamily Urocoptoidea was established by the malacologist Uit de Weerd, based on molecular phylogeny research.[3]
In 2012, Thompson[4] established a new family, the Epirobiidae.
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