MolluscaBase taxon details
Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840
413332 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413332)
accepted
Superfamily
- Family Achatinidae Swainson, 1840
- Family Aillyidae H. B. Baker, 1955
- Family Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883
- Family Micractaeonidae Schileyko, 1999
- Family Ferrussacidae Bourguignat, 1883 accepted as Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883 (incorrect original spelling)
- Epifamily Ferussariidae [sic] accepted as Ferussaciidae Bourguignat, 1883 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Family Glessulidae Godwin-Austen, 1920 accepted as Glessulinae Godwin-Austen, 1920 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Family Stenogyridae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877 accepted as Stenogyrinae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Family Subulinidae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877 accepted as Subulininae P. Fischer & Crosse, 1877 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Family Thyrophorellidae Girard, 1895 accepted as Thyrophorellinae Girard, 1895 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
MolluscaBase (2025). Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413332 on 2026-04-24
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
original description
(of Achatininae Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 334; note: original spelling Achatinae [details]
basis of record Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 61(1-2): 1-526., available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.061.0201 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 334; note: original spelling Achatinae [details]
basis of record Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 61(1-2): 1-526., available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.061.0201 [details] Available for editors
[request]
