Plectopyloidea | |
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Drawing of apertural view of the shell of Sculptaria sculpturata, family Sculptariidae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Suborder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: |
Plectopyloidea Möllendorff, 1898 |
Plectopyloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the suborder Helicina. [1] [2]
The superfamily Plectopyloidea consists of the following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
Plectopylidae ranges across large parts of southeast Asia from Nepal to southern Japan. [3] Corillidae is the mainly Sri Lankan family. [3] Sculptariidae is the African family. [3]
The Plectopylidae differ from the Corillidae by the presence of one or two vertical (= perpendicular to the suture) lamellae on the parietal wall, approximately a quarter to a half whorl behind the aperture. [3] In contrast, the Corillidae have only horizontal (= parallel with the suture) parietal plicae (in Corilla all plicae may be absent). [3]
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