Achatinoidea

Achatinoidea
	Giant East African Snail, Achatina fulica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Suborder:	Achatinina
Superfamily:	Achatinoidea; Swainson, 1840
Families
	Achatinidae; Aillyidae; Ferussaciidae; Micractaeonidae;

The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.^[1]

2005 taxonomy

According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 there are four families within the superfamily Achatinoidea,^[1] that is based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.^[1]^[2]

Fontanilla et al. recognized Subulinidae as not monophyletic in 2017 and they classified Subulininae within Achatinidae.^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.
^ Nordsieck H. (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.. abstract Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Fontanilla, Ian Kendrich; Naggs, Fred; Wade, Christopher Mark (2017). "Molecular phylogeny of the Achatinoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114: 382–385. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.014. PMID 28647619.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c Rosenberg, G. (2011). Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413332 on 2018-01-01

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