Amphiboloidea | |
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A drawing of the shell and operculum of Amphibola crenata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Subcohort: | Panpulmonata |
Superfamily: |
Amphiboloidea J. E. Gray, 1840 |
Families | |
Diversity [1] | |
15 species |
Amphiboloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails.
Amphibolids are found in Indo-Pacific intertidal mangrove, saltmarsh and estuarine mudflat habitats. [1]
According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it is a superfamily in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata. [2]
This superfamily has contained only one family, the Amphibolidae. [2]
Golding et al. (2007) [1] have established new families:
Basommatophora ( Siphonarioidea and Amphiboloidea and Hygrophila) have been found polyphyletic and so Jörger et al. (2010) [3] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.