Clausilioidea
Superfamily of gastropods
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The Clausilioidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[1]
| Clausilioidea | |
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| Cochlodina laminata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | Clausilioidei |
| Superfamily: | Clausilioidea J. E. Gray, 1855 |
This classification was based on different studies dealing with the Clausiliidae, published by H. Nordsieck in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1994, 1997 and 1998.
Taxonomy
- Family Clausiliidae Gray, 1855
- † Family Anadromidae Wenz, 1940
- † Family Filholiidae Wenz, 1923
- † Family Palaeostoidae H. Nordsieck, 1986
