Limacoidei
Sign in to saveThe Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina.
Species
Infraorder
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderStylommatophora
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- Distribution
- Etymology
- Typography of the name
- 2003 taxonomy by Schileyko
- 2005 taxonomy by Bouchet & Rocroi
- Explanatory note
- Taxonomic list
- Cladogram
- References
The Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina.
== Distribution == The original ancestral area of limacoid families is thought to be the Palearctic region and south-eastern Asia.
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