Rhytidoidea

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

Rhytidoidea
Powelliphanta "Augustus"
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subcohort:	Panpulmonata
Superorder:	Eupulmonata
Order:	Stylommatophora
Superfamily:	Rhytidoidea Pilsbry, 1893
Families
See text
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
• Odontostomidae Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898
• Rhytididae Pilsbry, 1893
• Strophocheilidae Pilsbry, 1902
• † Vidaliellidae H. Nordsieck, 1986

Synonyms

• Acavinae Pilsbry, 1895: synonym of Acavidae Pilsbry, 1895 (superseded rank)
• Ammonitellidae Pilsbry, 1930: synonym of Megomphicidae H. B. Baker, 1930
• Anoglyptidae Iredale, 1937: synonym of Caryodidae Connolly, 1915 (junior subjective synonym)
• Aperidae Möllendorff, 1903: synonym of Chlamydephorinae T. D. A. Cockerell, 1935 (1903)
• Chlamydephoridae T. D. A. Cockerell, 1935 (1903): synonym of Chlamydephorinae T. D. A. Cockerell, 1935 (1903)
• Corillidae Pilsbry, 1905: synonym of Corillinae Pilsbry, 1905 (superseded rank)
• Hedleyellidae Iredale, 1937: synonym of Caryodidae Connolly, 1915
• Occirheneidae Iredale, 1939: synonym of Rhytidinae Pilsbry, 1893
• Paryphantidae Godwin-Austen, 1893: synonym of hytidinae Pilsbry, 1893
• Pedinogyridae Iredale, 1937: synonym of Caryodidae Connolly, 1915