Rhytidoidea

The Rhytidoidea are a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the suborder Helicina.^[1]

Rhytidoidea
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superorder:	Eupulmonata
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Rhytidoidea Pilsbry, 1893
Families
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Synonyms[1]
Acavoidea

The former taxonomy was based on the study by Nordsieck, published in 1986.^[2]

Taxonomy

Families within the superfamily Rhytidoidea are as follows:

• Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895
• Caryodidae Connolly, 1915
• Clavatoridae Thiele, 1926
• Dorcasiidae Connolly, 1915
• Macrocyclidae Thiele, 1926
• Megomphicidae H. B. Baker, 1930
• Rhytididae Pilsbry, 1893
• Strophocheilidae Pilsbry, 1902