Eupulmonata

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Eupulmonata
Cepaea hortensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
Haszprunar & Huber, 1990
Clades

clade Systellommatophora
clade Stylommatophora

The Eupulmonata is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing snails. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are marine and some are saltmarsh snails that can tolerate salty conditions.

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[edit] Linnean taxonomy

[edit] 2005 taxonomy

In the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005) Eupulmonata is an unranked clade.[1]

[edit] Clade Eupulmonata

Contains the clades Systellommatophora and Stylommatophora

[edit] Clade Systellommatophora (Gymnomorpha)

[edit] Clade Stylommatophora

Contains the subclades Elasmognatha, Orthurethra and the informal group Sigmurethra

[edit] Subclade Elasmognatha

[edit] Subclade Orthurethra

[edit] Informal Group Sigmurethra

[edit] "Limacoid clade"

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P., Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdés Á. & Warén A. (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology (Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks) 47 (1-2): 1–397. ISBN 3925919724. ISSN 0076-2997. http://www.archive.org/details/malacologia47122005inst. 
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