Sigmurethra

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Sigmurethra
Temporal range: Cretaceous–Recent
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Various examples of Sigmurethra
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Informal group: Sigmurethra
Superfamilies
Synonyms [1]

Sigmurethra is a taxonomic category of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This is an informal group which includes most land snails and slugs.

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The two strong synapomorphies of Sigmurethra are a long pedal gland placed beneath a membrane and retractile tentacles. [2]

Several families in this group contain species of snails and slugs that create love darts.

Sigmurethra are known from the Cretaceous to the Recent periods. [3]

Taxonomy

2005 Taxonomy

In the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, Sigmurethra is an "Informal Group", a subsection of the Stylommatophora. [4] It consists of the following families:

limacoid clade

Informal group Sigmurethra continued

Two superfamilies belongs to clade Sigmurethra, but they are not in the limacoid clade.

(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)

New families after 2005

2017 Taxonomy

After excluding groups not related, the informal group Sigmurethra becomes suborder Helicina, with the following nine infraorders and a collection of families with no superfamily: [6]

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