Littorinoidea

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Littorinoidea
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Apertural view of a shell and an operculum of the land snail Tudorella sulcata in the family Pomatiidae
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The land snail Tropidophora fimbriata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Littorinoidea
Children, 1834 [1]
Families

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Littorinoidea are a superfamily of both sea snails and land snails which have a gill and an operculum, terrestrial and marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Littorinimorpha. [2]

The terrestrial family within this group, the Pomatiidae, are sometimes called "land winkles" [3] because the group originated in the sea and the closely related family Littorinidae are known as "winkles". [4]

Taxonomy

These families and subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

(Extinct taxa are indicated by a dagger, †.)

Families brought into synonymy

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References

  1. Children, J. G. (1834). Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. ed. 28: 110.
  2. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2): 250.
  3. Journal of Molluscan Studies, GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION IN THE LAND WINKLE POMATIAS ELEGANS (MÜLLER) (CAENOGASTROPODA: POMATIASIDAE) Volume 67, Issue 2, pp 145–152 (http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/2/145.abstract) Accessed 2014-9-2
  4. The Coast Way: A Portrait of the English on the Lower North Shore of the St Lawrence. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. 1988. p. 135. ISBN   978-0-7735-0654-1.