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Helicoidea
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Helicoidea

Helicoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Stylommatophora.

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17 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Helix Snails

familyHelicidae

Camaenidae

familyCamaenidae

Polygyridae

familyPolygyridae

Leaf Snails

familyHygromiidae

Geomitridae

familyGeomitridae

Xanthonychidae

familyXanthonychidae

Cheese Snails

familyHelicodontidae

Trissexodontidae

familyTrissexodontidae

Sphincterochilidae

familySphincterochilidae

Pleurodontidae

familyPleurodontidae

Elonidae

familyElonidae

Labyrinthidae

familyLabyrinthidae

Cepolidae

familyCepolidae

Epiphragmophoridae

familyEpiphragmophoridae

Canariellidae

familyCanariellidae

Trichodiscinidae

familyTrichodiscinidae

Thysanophoridae

familyThysanophoridae

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68625.