Achatinoidea Explained

The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the suborder Achatinina.

2005 taxonomy

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

• Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
• Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
• Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999
• Family Subulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877

2017 taxonomy

Fontanilla et al. recognized Subulinidae as not monophyletic in 2017 and they classified Subulininae within Achatinidae.^[2] This is also the taxonomy followed in the MolluscaBase/World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):

• Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
• Family Aillyidae H. B. Baker, 1955
• Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
• Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999

Notes and References

1. Nordsieck . H.. 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. 1986. 117. 1–3. 93–116 . .
2. Fontanilla. Ian Kendrich. Naggs. Fred. Wade. Christopher Mark. Molecular phylogeny of the Achatinoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 114. 382–385. 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.06.014. 28647619. 2017.