Helicarionoidea

Helicarionoidea
Five worn shells of Erepta setiliris in the family Helicarionidae, at Réunion island
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	HelicarionoideaBourguignat, 1877[1]
Families
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Helicarionoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrialpulmonategastropodmollusks in the infraorder Limacoidei.^[2]

Families

There are three families within the superfamily Helicarionoidea:^[2]

• Helicarionidae
• Ariophantidae
• Urocyclidae

Cladogram

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this family to other families within the limacoid clade:^[3]

limacoid clade	Staffordioidea Staffordiidae Dyakioidea Dyakiidae Gastrodontoidea Pristilomatidae Chronidae Euconulidae Trochomorphidae Gastrodontidae Oxychilidae Parmacelloidea Trigonochlamydidae Parmacellidae Milacidae Zonitoidea Zonitidae Helicarionoidea Helicarionidae Ariophantidae Urocyclidae Limacoidea Vitrinidae Boettgerillidae Limacidae Agriolimacidae

Genera

Genera of helicarionoids unassigned to families include:

• Pseudosaphtia de Winter, 2008^[4]
• Saphtia de Winter, 2008^[4]
• Vanmolia de Winter, 2008^[4]

References

1. Bourguignat J. R. (1877). "Description de deux nouveaux genres algériens, suive d'une classification des families et des genres de Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles du système européen". Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Toulouse3(1): 49-101. page 64.
2. Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
3. Hausdorf B. (March 2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.
4. de Winter A. J. (2008). "Redefinition of Thapsia Albers, 1860, and description of three more helicarionoid genera from western Africa (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Zoologische Mededelingen. 82.