Parmacelloidea

Summary

Parmacelloidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora and the informal group Pulmonata. These are limacoid or keelback slugs.

Parmacelloidea
A live individual of the Ghost Slug Selenochlamys ysbryda in the family Trigonochlamydidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Stylommatophora
Suborder: Helicina
Infraorder: Limacoidei
Superfamily: ParmacelloideaP. Fischer, 1856 (1855) Families edit

Families within the superfamily Parmacelloidea include:

Cladogram edit

The following cladogram shows the phylogenic relationships of this superfamily to the other superfamilies and families within the limacoid clade:[1]

 limacoid clade 

References edit

  1. ^ Hausdorf B. (March 2000). "Biogeography of the Limacoidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): Vicariance Events and Long-Distance Dispersal". Journal of Biogeography 27(2): 379-390. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00403.x, JSTOR.