Amphiboloidea

Amphiboloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails.

Amphiboloidea
A drawing of the shell and operculum of Amphibola crenata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superfamily:	Amphiboloidea J. E. Gray, 1840
Families
Amphibolidae Maningrididae Phallomedusidae
Diversity[1]
15 species

Distribution

Amphibolids are found in Indo-Pacific intertidal mangrove, saltmarsh and estuarine mudflat habitats.^[1]

Taxonomy

2005 taxonomy

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), it is a superfamily in the informal group Basommatophora, within the Pulmonata.^[2]

This superfamily has contained only one family, the Amphibolidae.^[2]

2007 taxonomy

Golding et al. (2007)^[1] have established new families:

• Maningrididae Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007^[1] - with the only species Maningrida arnhemensis^[1]
• Phallomedusidae Golding, Ponder & Byrne, 2007^[1]

2010 taxonomy

Basommatophora (Siphonarioidea and Amphiboloidea and Hygrophila) have been found polyphyletic and so Jörger et al. (2010)^[3] have moved Amphiboloidea to Panpulmonata.