Streptaxoidea
Superfamily of gastropods
title: "Streptaxoidea" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["stylommatophora", "taxa-named-by-john-edward-gray", "gastropods-described-in-1860"] description: "Superfamily of gastropods" topic_path: "general/stylommatophora" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptaxoidea" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Superfamily of gastropods ::
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Streptaxoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the suborder Achatinina of the order Stylommatophora.
Taxonomy
2005 taxonomy
There have been recognized the only family Streptaxidae within Streptaxoidea in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).
2010 taxonomy
Sutcharit et al. (2010) have established a new family Diapheridae within Streptaxoidea as follows:
- family Streptaxidae Gray, 1860
- family Diapheridae Panha & Naggs, 2010
Rowson et al. (2011) have confirmed monophyly of Streptaxidae and Diapheridae as its sister group.
References
References
- {{Bouchet 2005
- Sutcharit C., Naggs F., Wade C. M., Fontanilla I. & Panha S. (2010). "The new family Diapheridae, a new species of ''Diaphera'' Albers from Thailand, and the position of the Diapheridae within a molecular phylogeny of the Streptaxoidea (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora)". ''[[Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society]]'' '''160''': 1-16. {{doi. 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00598.x.
- Rowson B., Tattersfield P. & Symondson W. O. C. (2011). "Phylogeny and biogeography of tropical carnivorous land-snails (Pulmonata: Streptaxoidea) with particular reference to East Africa and the Indian Ocean". ''[[Zoologica Scripta]]'' '''40''': 85-98. {{doi. 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00456.x.
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