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Xanthonychoidea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Gastropoda

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Rank
  
Superfamily

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Echinix, Xanthonychidae, Helicoidea, Bradybaenidae, Stylommatophora

Xanthonychoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, land slugs and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.

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2005 taxonomy

The taxon Xanthonychoidea was not used in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005. The family Xanthonychidae was placed within the superfamily Helicoidea.

2012 taxonomy

Thompson & Naranjo-GarcĂ­a (2012) described a new family Echinichidae and placed it to the superfamily Xanthonychoidea.

Families within the Xanthonychoidea include:

  • Echinichidae
  • Xanthonychidae
  • References

    Xanthonychoidea Wikipedia