Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Neritimorpha
Ordo: Cycloneritida
Superfamilia: Helicinoidea
Familiae (4 + 2†): Helicinidae – Neritiliidae – Proserpinellidae – Proserpinidae – †Dawsonellidae – †Deianiridae
Name
Helicinoidea Férussac, 1822
References
Links
Helicinoidea in the World Register of Marine Species
Helicinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of land snails that have an operculum. In other words, they are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks. They are in the superfamily Neritoidea and are quite closely related to the marine and freshwater nerites.
Taxonomy
The following families are within according to the taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
family Helicinidae
† family Dawsonellidae
† family Deianiridae
family Neritiliidae
family Proserpinellidae
family Proserpinidae
References
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