Helicarionoidea

Helicarionoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the infraorder Limacoidei.[2]

Helicarionoidea
Five worn shells of Erepta setiliris in the family Helicarionidae, at Réunion island
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Eupulmonata
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Helicina
Infraorder:	Limacoidei
Superfamily:	Helicarionoidea Bourguignat, 1877[1]
Families
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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 Toulouse 3(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. Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks. 47 (1–2): 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 Biogeography 27(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.