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Achatinoidea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Higher classification
  
Sigmurethra

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Superfamily

Achatinoidea

Lower classifications
  
Giant African S, Achatinidae

The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.

Taxonomy

According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 there are four families within the superfamily Achatinoidea, that is based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.

  • Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
  • Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
  • Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999
  • Family Subulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877
  • References

    Achatinoidea Wikipedia