Xanthonychoidea

{{Short description|Superfamily of gastropods}}

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| image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.301252 - Averellia desidens (Rang, 1834) - Xanthonychidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg

| image_caption = Averellia desidens shell

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Mollusca

| classis = Gastropoda

| unranked_superfamilia = clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra

| superfamilia = Xanthonychoidea

| superfamilia_authority = Strebel & Pfeffer, 1879Strebel & Pfeffer (1879). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Fauna mexicanischer Land- und Süsswasser Conchylien, 4: 25.

| synonyms =

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Xanthonychoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, land slugs and semi-slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the clade Stylommatophora.

Taxonomy

=2005 taxonomy=

The taxon Xanthonychoidea was not used in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.{{Bouchet 2005}} The family Xanthonychidae was placed within the superfamily Helicoidea.

=2012 taxonomy=

Thompson & Naranjo-García (2012) described a new family Echinichidae and placed it to the superfamily Xanthonychoidea.Thompson F. G. & Naranjo-García E. (2012). "Echinichidae, a new family of dart-bearing helicoid slugs from Mexico, with the description of a new genus and three new species (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Xanthonychoidea)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 141(2): 197-208. {{doi|10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/141/197-208}}. [http://www.schweizerbart.de/resources/downloads/paper_previews/79370.pdf preview].

Families within the Xanthonychoidea include:

References

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Category:Stylommatophora

Category:Gastropod superfamilies