Stylommatophora

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Stylommatophora
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A Stylommatophoran land snail from the family Hygromiidae

A Stylommatophoran land snail from the family Hygromiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Subclass:Orthogastropoda
Superorder:Heterobranchia
Order:Pulmonata
Suborder:Eupulmonata
Infraorder:Stylommatophora
Subinfraorders


Orthurethra
Sigmurethra


Stylommatophora is an infraorder (also sometimes considered an order) of molluscs that includes most land snails and slugs. The Stylommatophora are distinct from other pulmonates in that they possess eyes that sit on top of retracable tentacles, and that all species are hermaphroditic.

Taxonomy

  • Subinfraorder Orthurethra
  • Superfamily Achatinelloidea Gulick, 1873
  • Superfamily Cochlicopoidea Pilsbry, 1900
  • Superfamily Partuloidea Pilsbry, 1900
  • Superfamily Pupilloidea Turton, 1831
  • Subinfraorder Sigmurethra
  • Superfamily Acavoidea Pilsbry, 1895
  • Superfamily Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840
  • Superfamily Aillyoidea Baker, 1960
  • Superfamily Arionoidea J.E. Gray in Turnton, 1840
  • Superfamily Buliminoidea Clessin, 1879
  • Superfamily Camaenoidea Pilsbry, 1895
  • Superfamily Clausilioidea Mörch, 1864
  • Superfamily Dyakioidea Gude & Woodward, 1921
  • Superfamily Gastrodontoidea Tryon, 1866
  • Superfamily Helicoidea Rafinesque, 1815
  • Superfamily Helixarionoidea Bourguignat, 1877
  • Superfamily Limacoidea Rafinesque, 1815
  • Superfamily Oleacinoidea H. & A. Adams, 1855
  • Superfamily Orthalicoidea Albers-Martens, 1860
  • Superfamily Plectopylidoidea Moellendorf, 1900
  • Superfamily Polygyroidea Pilsbry, 1894
  • Superfamily Punctoidea Morse, 1864
  • Superfamily Rhytidoidea Pilsbry, 1893
  • Superfamily Sagdidoidera Pilsbry, 1895
  • Superfamily Staffordioidea Thiele, 1931
  • Superfamily Streptaxoidea J.E. Gray, 1806
  • Superfamily Strophocheiloidea Thiele, 1926
  • Superfamily Trigonochlamydoidea Hese, 1882
  • Superfamily Zonitoidea Mörch, 1864

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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Gastropoda
Cuvier, 1797

Subclasses

Eogastropoda (True Limpets and relatives)
Orthogastropoda

The gastropods, also previously known as gasteropods, or univalves
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Orthogastropoda

Taxonomy
  • See Text


In their work, which has become a standard reference in the field, Ponder and Lindberg (1997) showed that the Orthogastropoda
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Heterobranchia

Orders

Heterostropha
Opisthobranchia
Pulmonata

Heterobranchia (different-gilled snails) is a superorder of mollusks in the class gastropoda.

The families included in this recently established superorder of mollusks (G.
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Pulmonata

Suborders
  • Systellommatophora
  • Basommatophora
  • Eupulmonata


The Pulmonata are an order (once a subclass) of snails and slugs that have developed a pallial lung and thus can breathe air.
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Pulmonata

Suborder: Eupulmonata

Infraorders

Acteophila
Trimusculiformes
Stylommatophora

The Eupulmonata are a Suborder of the Order Pulmonata within the Subclass Orthogastropoda.
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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Stylommatophora

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Subinfraorders, superfamilies, and families
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Slug
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Pulmonata

Suborders
  • Systellommatophora
  • Basommatophora
  • Eupulmonata


The Pulmonata are an order (once a subclass) of snails and slugs that have developed a pallial lung and thus can breathe air.
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Tentacles can refer to the elongated flexible organs that are present in some animals, especially invertebrates, and sometimes to the hairs of the leaves of some insectivorous plants. Usually, they are used for feeding, feeling and grasping.
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hermaphrodite is an organism that posses both male and female genetalia.[1] In many species, hermaphroditism is a common part of the life-cycle, particularly in some asexual animals and some plants.
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Arionoidea

Arionoidea is a taxonomic group, a superfamily of land slugs, in other words shell-less snails.

This superfamily of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks is in the infraorder Stylommatophora and in the order Pulmonata.
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John Edward Gray

Born January 12 1800(1800--)
Walsall, England
Died March 07 1875 (aged 75)

Nationality British
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Dyakioidea
Gude & Woodward, 1921

Dyakioidea is a superfamily of gastropods from infraorder Stylommatophora in ordo Pulmonata.

Families

  • Dyakiidae

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Gastrodontoidea
Tryon, 1866

Gastrodontoidea is a superfamily of gastropods from infraorder Stylommatophora in ordo Pulmonata.

Families

  • Chronidae
  • Euconulidae
  • Oxychilidae
  • Pristilomatidae
  • Trochomorphidae

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Helicoidea
Rafinesque, 1815

Helicoidea is a superfamilia of gastropods from infraorder Stylommatophora in ordo Pulmonata.

Families

  • Helicidae
  • Bradybaenidae
  • Camaenidae
  • Cepolidae (gastropods)
  • Cochlicellidae
  • Elonidae

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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, (October 22 1783-September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life.
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Helixarionoidea
Bourguignat, 1877

Families

Ariophantidae
Cystopeltidae
Dyakiidae
Euconulidae
Helixarionidae
Sesaridae
Trochomorphidae
Urocyclidae
Synonyms

Helicarionoidea

The Helixarionoidea
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Limacoidea

Limacoidea is a superfamily of gastropods from infraorder Stylommatophora in ordo Pulmonata. The Helixarionoidea are sometimes merged herein.

Families

  • Limacidae
  • Agriolimacidae
  • Boettgerillidae
  • Vitrinidae

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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, (October 22 1783-September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life.
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Punctoidea
Morse, 1864

Families

Charopidae
Discidae
Endodontidae
Helicodiscidae
Oopeltidae
Oreohelicidae
Otoconchidae
Philiomycidae
Punctidae
Synonyms

Endodontoidea

The Punctoidea
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Johannes Thiele (1860 - 1935) was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde (English edition published by the Smithsonian under the title Handbook of Systematic Malacology) is a standard work.
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John Edward Gray

Born January 12 1800(1800--)
Walsall, England
Died March 07 1875 (aged 75)

Nationality British
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Johannes Thiele (1860 - 1935) was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde (English edition published by the Smithsonian under the title Handbook of Systematic Malacology) is a standard work.
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Zonitidae

Zonitidae is the only family of gastropods in superfamily Zonitoidea from infraorder Stylommatophora in ordo Pulmonata.

Genera

  • Poecilozonites - Bermuda land snail
  • Vitrea
  • Aegopis

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