- Eupulmonata
Taxobox
name = Eupulmonata
image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Cepaea hortensis "
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Gastropoda
subclassis =Orthogastropoda
superordo =Heterobranchia
ordo =Pulmonata
subordo = Eupulmonata
subdivision_ranks = Infraorders
subdivision =Acteophila Trimusculiformes Stylommatophora
The Eupulmonata are ataxonomic group of air-breathingsnail s. Some are marine and some are saltmarsh snails that can tolerate salty conditions, but the great majority of this group are land snails andslugs .Note: Gastropod taxonomy has been in flux for many years. This is especially true currently because of new research in
molecular phylogeny . Therefore different reliable sources can yield very different classifications, especially in certain poorly understood groups.Some malacologists consider Eupulmonata to be a suborder of the order
Pulmonata within the SubclassOrthogastropoda .One version of the taxonomy
*Suborder Eupulmonata Haszprunar & Huber, 1990
**InfraorderActeophila Dall, 1885 (= formerly Archaeopulmonata)
***SuperfamilyMelampoidea Stimpson, 1851
**InfraorderTrimusculiformes Minichev & Starobogatov, 1975
***SuperfamilyTrimusculoidea Zilch, 1959
**InfraorderStylommatophora A. Schmidt, 1856 (land snails)
***SubinfraorderOrthurethra
****SuperfamilyAchatinelloidea Gulick, 1873
****SuperfamilyCochlicopoidea Pilsbry, 1900
****SuperfamilyPartuloidea Pilsbry, 1900
****SuperfamilyPupilloidea Turton, 1831
***SubinfraorderSigmurethra
****SuperfamilyAcavoidea Pilsbry, 1895
****SuperfamilyAchatinoidea Swainson, 1840
****SuperfamilyAillyoidea Baker, 1960
****SuperfamilyArionoidea J.E. Gray in Turnton, 1840
****SuperfamilyBuliminoidea Clessin, 1879
****SuperfamilyCamaenoidea Pilsbry, 1895
****SuperfamilyClausilioidea Mörch, 1864
****SuperfamilyDyakioidea Gude & Woodward, 1921
****SuperfamilyGastrodontoidea Tryon, 1866
****SuperfamilyHelicoidea Rafinesque, 1815
****SuperfamilyHelixarionoidea Bourguignat, 1877
****SuperfamilyLimacoidea Rafinesque, 1815
****SuperfamilyOleacinoidea H. & A. Adams, 1855
****SuperfamilyOrthalicoidea Albers-Martens, 1860
****SuperfamilyPlectopylidoidea Moellendorf, 1900
****SuperfamilyPolygyroidea Pilsbry, 1894
****SuperfamilyPunctoidea Morse, 1864
****SuperfamilyRhytidoidea Pilsbry, 1893
****SuperfamilySagdidoidera Pilsbry, 1895
****SuperfamilyStaffordioidea Thiele, 1931
****SuperfamilyStreptaxoidea J.E. Gray, 1806
****SuperfamilyStrophocheiloidea Thiele, 1926
****SuperfamilyTrigonochlamydoidea Hese, 1882
****SuperfamilyZonitoidea Mörch, 1864
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