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Trochoidea (genus)

This article is about a genus of air-breathing land snails. For the identically named superfamily of sea snails, see Trochoidea (superfamily).

Trochoidea
Five views of a shell of Trochoidea pyramidata (Draparnaud, 1805)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicoidei
Superfamily: Helicoidea
Family: Geomitridae
Genus: Trochoidea
Brown, 1827[1]
Type species
Helix elegans Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms
  • Helix (Ochthephila) Beck, 1837 (junior synonym)
  • Helix (Turricula) Beck, 1837 (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
  • Ochthephila H. Beck, 1837
  • Trochoidea (Trochoidea) T. Brown, 1827 · alternate representation
  • Trochula Schlüter, 1838
  • Tropidocochlis Locard, 1893
  • Turricula H. Beck, 1837 · (Invalid: junior homonym of Turricula Schumacher, 1817 [Turridae])
  • Xeroclivia Monterosato, 1892
  • Xerocochlea Monterosato, 1892
  • Xeronexa Monterosato, 1892 ·
  • Xerophila (Trochula) Schlüter, 1838 · (superseded generic combination)

Trochoidea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae.[2] [3] The name means "those that are shaped like a top".

(The same name, Trochoidea is currently also used for a superfamily of sea snails with gills, a superfamily that includes the top shells, Trochidae, and the turban shells, Turbinidae.)

  1. ^ Brown T. 1827. Illustrations of conchology of Great Britain and Ireland drawn from nature. pp. 1–65, Pl. 1-52. Edinburgh. (Lizars).
  2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Trochoidea T. Brown, 1827. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=426412 on 4 August 2022
  3. ^ Razkin, Oihana; Gómez-Moliner, Benjamín Juán; Prieto, Carlos Enrique; Martínez-Ortí, Alberto; Arrébola, José Ramón; Muñoz, Benito; Chueca, Luis Javier; Madeira, María José (February 2015). "Molecular phylogeny of the western Palaearctic Helicoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 83: 99–117. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.11.014. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25485783.

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