| Punctoidea | |
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| A live individual of Discus rotundatus in the family Discidae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Suborder: | Helicina |
| Infraorder: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Punctoidea Morse, 1864 |
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According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005): Punctidae | |
Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.
Taxonomy
The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata. As of 2017, it contains the following families:1
- † Afrodontops Kadolsky, 2020
- Charopidae Hutton, 1884
- Cystopeltidae Cockerell, 1891
- Discidae Thiele, 1931 (1866)
- Endodontidae Pilsbry, 1895
- Helicodiscidae Pilsbry, 1927
- Oopeltidae Cockerell, 1891
- Oreohelicidae Pilsbry, 1939
- Punctidae Morse, 1864
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