Punctoidea

Punctoidea
A live individual of Discus rotundatus in the family Discidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	incertae sedis
Superfamily:	Punctoidea Morse, 1864
Families
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): Punctidae Charopidae Cystopeltidae Discidae Endodontidae Helicodiscidae Oreohelicidae

Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.

Taxonomy

The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata. As of 2017, it contains the following families: ^[1]

• † Afrodontops Kadolsky, 2020
• Charopidae Hutton, 1884
• Cystopeltidae Cockerell, 1891
• Discidae Thiele, 1931 (1866)
• Endodontidae Pilsbry, 1895
• Helicodiscidae Pilsbry, 1927
• Oopeltidae Cockerell, 1891
• Oreohelicidae Pilsbry, 1939
• Punctidae Morse, 1864

References

1. Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16, 2017. . World Register of Marine Species , Retrieved 10 January 2019.