Xanthonychoidea

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Superfamily of gastropods

title: "Xanthonychoidea" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["stylommatophora", "gastropod-superfamilies"] description: "Superfamily of gastropods" topic_path: "general/stylommatophora" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthonychoidea" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Superfamily of gastropods ::

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

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

Thompson & Naranjo-García (2012) described a new family Echinichidae and placed it to the superfamily Xanthonychoidea.

Families within the Xanthonychoidea include:

[[Hermann Strebel (malacologist). Strebel]] & [[Georg Johann Pfeffer. Pfeffer]] (1879). Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Fauna mexicanischer Land- und Süsswasser Conchylien, 4: 25.
{{Bouchet 2005
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].

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