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Achatinoidea
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The Achatinoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the suborder Achatinina.[1][2]

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2005 taxonomy

According to taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 there are four families within the superfamily Achatinoidea,[3] that is based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.[3][4]

2017 taxonomy

Fontanilla et al. recognized Subulinidae as not monophyletic in 2017 and they classified Subulininae within Achatinidae.[5] This is also the taxonomy followed in the MolluscaBase/World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS):[1][2]

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