Punctoidea
Superfamily of gastropods
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Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.
| Punctoidea | |
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| A live individual of Discus rotundatus in the family Discidae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea Morse, 1864 |
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According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): Punctidae | |
Taxonomy
The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata. As of 2017, it contains the following families:[1]
- † Afrodontops Kadolsky, 2020
- Charopidae Hutton, 1884
- Cystopeltidae Cockerell, 1891
- Discidae Thiele, 1931 (1866)
- Endodontidae Pilsbry, 1895
- Helicodiscidae Pilsbry, 1927
- Oopeltidae Cockerell, 1891
- Oreohelicidae Pilsbry, 1939
- Punctidae Morse, 1864
