Aillyidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
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(unranked): | clade
Heterobranchia
clade
Euthyneura |
Superfamily: | Aillyoidea
H. B. Baker, 1955
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Family: | Aillyidae
H. B. Baker, 1955
[1]
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Synonyms | |
see text |
Aillyidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra. [2]
Aillyidae is the only family in the superfamily Aillyoidea. [2]
This family and the genus is named in honor of Swedish malacologist Adolf d'Ailly (1855-1927).[ citation needed]
The family Aillyidae is classified within the informal group Sigmurethra, itself belonging to the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata (according to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). [2] This family has no subfamilies. [2]
Prestonellidae has been tentatively placed as a synonym of Aillyidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005. [2] Herbert & Mitchell (2009) [3] have moved Prestonellidae to the superfamily Orthalicoidea. [3]