Helicinoidea
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| Helicinoidea | |
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| Alcadia conuloides | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Cycloneritida |
| Superfamily: | Helicinoidea A. Férussac, 1822[1] |
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Helicinoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of land snails[1] that have an operculum. In other words, they are terrestrial operculate gastropod mollusks. They are in the order Cycloneritida[1] and are quite closely related to the marine and freshwater nerites.
