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Helicoidea

(Superfamily)

Overview

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Taxonomy

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The Superfamily Helicoidea is a member of the Series Percomorpha. Here is the complete "parentage" of Helicoidea:

The Superfamily Helicoidea is further organized into finer groupings including:

Families

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Bradybaenidae

Bradybaenidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to small land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Camaenidae

Camaenidae is a family of gastropods in the order Stylommatophora. [more]

Cepolidae

Bandfishes are a family, Cepolidae, of perciform fishes. They are native to the Atlantic seaboard of Europe and the West Pacific, including New Zealand. They dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabed and eat zooplankton. [more]

Cochlicellidae

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Elonidae

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Epiphragmophoridae

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Halolimnohelicidae

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Helicidae

The Helicidae, sometimes known as the typical snails, are a taxonomic family of small to large, air-breathing, land snails. In other words, they are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Helicodontidae

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Helminthoglyptidae

The Helminthoglyptidae are a family of pulmonate land snails. This is a large and diverse group of new world snails, ranging in distribution from Alaska through North America to the West Indies, Central America, and as far south as Argentina. [more]

Humboldtianidae

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Hygromiidae

Hygromiidae is a taxonomic family of small to medium sized land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the order Stylommatophora. [more]

Monadeniidae

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Pleurodontidae

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Polygyridae

Polygyridae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks. [more]

Sphincterochilidae

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Thysanophoridae

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Trissexodontidae

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Xanthonychidae

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At least 60 species and subspecies belong to the Family Xanthonychidae.

More info about the Family Xanthonychidae may be found here.

Sources

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Last Revised: August 28, 2008