| Acavoidea | |
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| A live individual of Helicophanta gloriosa, family Acavidae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Informal group: | Sigmurethra |
| Superfamily: | Acavoidea Pilsbry, 1895 |
| Families | |
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The Acavoidea are a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.1
This taxonomy was based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.2
Taxonomy
Families within the superfamily Acavoidea are as follows:
- Family Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895
- Family Caryodidae Conolly, 1915
- Family Dorcasiidae Conolly, 1915
- Family Macrocyclidae Thiele, 1926
- Family Megomphicidae H.B. Baker, 1930
- Family Strophocheilidae Pilsbry, 1902
References
References
- Bouchet, P.; Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- H. Nordsieck (1986). "The system of the Stylommatophora (Gastropoda), with special regard to the systematic position of the Clausiliidae, II. Importance of the shell and distribution". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 117 (1–3): 93–116.