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Punctoidea

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Punctoidea
A live individual of Discus rotundatus in the family Discidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Superfamily: Punctoidea
Morse, 1864
Families

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Punctidae
Charopidae
Cystopeltidae
Discidae
Endodontidae
Helicodiscidae
Oreohelicidae

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]

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