Planorboidea

Planorboidea is a superfamily of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks.

Planorboidea
Planorbarius corneus, family Planorbidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Hygrophila
Superfamily:
Planorboidea

Families

Family Planorbidae
Family Physidae

All of the gastropods in this superfamily are sinistral in shell coiling.

The monophyly of Planorboidea was confirmed by Albrecht et al. (2007).

Thjs superfamily has now been recognised as a synonym of Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815.

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