PULMONATA

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The 'Pulmonata' are an order (once a subclass) of snails and slugs that have developed a pallial lung and thus can breathe air. The group includes many land and freshwater families, and a few marine ones.

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Taxonomy


Order 'Pulmonata' Cuvier in Blainville, 1814 (pulmonates)

★ Suborder Systellommatophora Pilsbry, 1948



★ Superfamily Onchidioidea Rafinesque, 1815



★ Superfamily Otinoidea H. & A. Adams, 1855



★ Superfamily Rathouisioidea Sarasin, 1889

★ Suborder Basommatophora Keferstein in Bronn, 1864 (freshwater pulmonates, pond snails)



★ Superfamily Acroloxoidea Thiele, 1931



★ Superfamily Amphiboloidea J.E. Gray, 1840



★ Superfamily Chilinoidea H. & A. Adams, 1855



★ Superfamily Glacidorboidea Ponder, 1986



★ Superfamily Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815



★ Superfamily Planorboidea Rafinesque, 1815



★ Superfamily Siphonarioidea J.E. Gray, 1840

★ Suborder Eupulmonata Haszprunar & Huber, 1990


★ Infraorder Acteophila Dall, 1885 (= formerly Archaeopulmonata)



★ Superfamily Melampoidea Stimpson, 1851


★ Infraorder Trimusculiformes Minichev & Starobogatov, 1975



★ Superfamily Trimusculoidea Zilch, 1959


★ Infraorder Stylommatophora A. Schmidt, 1856 (land snails)



★ Subinfraorder Orthurethra



★ Superfamily Achatinelloidea Gulick, 1873



★ Superfamily Cochlicopoidea Pilsbry, 1900



★ Superfamily Partuloidea Pilsbry, 1900



★ Superfamily Pupilloidea Turton, 1831



★ Subinfraorder Sigmurethra



★ Superfamily Acavoidea Pilsbry, 1895



★ Superfamily Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840



★ Superfamily Aillyoidea Baker, 1960



★ Superfamily Arionoidea J.E. Gray in Turnton, 1840




★ Genus Ariolimax (the Banana slug)



★ Superfamily Buliminoidea Clessin, 1879



★ Superfamily Camaenoidea Pilsbry, 1895



★ Superfamily Clausilioidea Mörch, 1864



★ Superfamily Dyakioidea Gude & Woodward, 1921



★ Superfamily Gastrodontoidea Tryon, 1866



★ Superfamily Helicoidea Rafinesque, 1815



★ Superfamily Helixarionoidea Bourguignat, 1877



★ Superfamily Limacoidea Rafinesque, 1815



★ Superfamily Oleacinoidea H. & A. Adams, 1855



★ Superfamily Orthalicoidea Albers-Martens, 1860



★ Superfamily Plectopylidoidea Moellendorf, 1900



★ Superfamily Polygyroidea Pilsbry, 1894



★ Superfamily Punctoidea Morse, 1864



★ Superfamily Rhytidoidea Pilsbry, 1893



★ Superfamily Sagdidoidera Pilsbry, 1895



★ Superfamily Staffordioidea Thiele, 1931



★ Superfamily Streptaxoidea J.E. Gray, 1806



★ Superfamily Strophocheiloidea Thiele, 1926



★ Superfamily Trigonochlamydoidea Hese, 1882



★ Superfamily Zonitoidea Mörch, 1864



★ ? Superfamily Athoracophoroidea P. Fischer, 1883 (= Tracheopulmonata)



★ ? Superfamily Succineoidea Beck, 1837 (= Heterurethra)

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Pulmonate snails & slugs in captivity

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