Helicinoidea

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Helicinoidea
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Alcadia conuloides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Cycloneritida
Superfamily: Helicinoidea
A. Férussac, 1822 [1]
Families

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Helicinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of land snails [1] that have an operculum. In other words, they are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks. They are in the order Cycloneritida [1] and are quite closely related to the marine and freshwater nerites.

Taxonomy

The following families are assigned to this taxon: [1]

Geophorus romblonensis, family Helicinidae Geophorus romblonensis.jpg
Geophorus romblonensis, family Helicinidae

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Helicinoidea A. Férussac, 1822". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 1 Mar 2026.


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