Achatinoidea

Achatinoidea
Giant East African Snail, Achatina fulica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840
Families
Achatinidae Aillyidae Ferussaciidae Micractaeonidae

The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the suborder Achatinina. ^{[1] [2]}

2005 taxonomy

According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 there are four families within the superfamily Achatinoidea, ^[3] that is based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986. ^{[3] [4]}

• Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
• Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
• Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999
• Family Subulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877

2017 taxonomy

Fontanilla et al. recognized Subulinidae as not monophyletic in 2017 and they classified Subulininae within Achatinidae. ^[5] This is also the taxonomy followed in the MolluscaBase/World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): ^{[1] [2]}

• Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
• Family Aillyidae H. B. Baker, 1955
• Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
• Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999

References

1. "Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840". MolluscaBase. 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
2. "Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
3. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia . 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN   3-925919-72-4. ISSN   0076-2997.
4. Nordsieck, H. (1986). "The system of the Stylommatophora (Gastropoda), with special regard to the systematic position of the Clausiliidae, II. Importance of the shell and distribution" (PDF). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 117 (1–3): 93–116. Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine .
5. Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich; Naggs, Fred; Wade, Christopher Mark (2017). "Molecular phylogeny of the Achatinoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114: 382–385. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.014. PMID   28647619.