Oleacinoidea

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Oleacinoidea
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Shell of Euglandina rosea (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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Oleacinoidea

H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
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The Oleacinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the suborder Helicina of the order Stylommatophora. [1]

Taxonomy

The following families, previously categorized within the Testacelloidea, were in 2017 transferred to the superfamily Oleacinoidea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 [2]

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Stylommatophora

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Ellobiidae

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Testacelloidea

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Clausilioidea

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References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Oleacinoidea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994715 on 2020-11-09
  2. Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526