Information about Pulmonate

Pulmonata
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Roman Snail, Helix pomatia

Roman Snail, Helix pomatia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Subclass:Orthogastropoda
Superorder:Heterobranchia
Order:Pulmonata
Suborders


The Pulmonata are an order (once a subclass) of snails and slugs that have developed a pallial lung and thus can breathe air. The group includes many land and freshwater families, and a few marine ones.

Taxonomy

Order Pulmonata Cuvier in Blainville, 1814 (pulmonates)
  • Suborder Systellommatophora Pilsbry, 1948
  • Superfamily Onchidioidea Rafinesque, 1815
  • Superfamily Otinoidea H. & A. Adams, 1855
  • Superfamily Rathouisioidea Sarasin, 1889
  • Suborder Basommatophora Keferstein in Bronn, 1864 (freshwater pulmonates, pond snails)
  • Superfamily Acroloxoidea Thiele, 1931
  • Superfamily Amphiboloidea J.E. Gray, 1840
  • Superfamily Chilinoidea H. & A. Adams, 1855
  • Superfamily Glacidorboidea Ponder, 1986
  • Superfamily Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815
  • Superfamily Planorboidea Rafinesque, 1815
  • Superfamily Siphonarioidea J.E. Gray, 1840
  • Suborder Eupulmonata Haszprunar & Huber, 1990
  • Infraorder Acteophila Dall, 1885 (= formerly Archaeopulmonata)
  • Superfamily Melampoidea Stimpson, 1851
  • Infraorder Trimusculiformes Minichev & Starobogatov, 1975
  • Superfamily Trimusculoidea Zilch, 1959
  • Infraorder Stylommatophora A. Schmidt, 1856 (land snails)
  • Subinfraorder Orthurethra
  • Superfamily Achatinelloidea Gulick, 1873
  • Superfamily Cochlicopoidea Pilsbry, 1900
  • Superfamily Partuloidea Pilsbry, 1900
  • Superfamily Pupilloidea Turton, 1831
  • Subinfraorder Sigmurethra
  • Superfamily Acavoidea Pilsbry, 1895
  • Superfamily Achatinoidea Swainson, 1840
  • Superfamily Aillyoidea Baker, 1960
  • Superfamily Arionoidea J.E. Gray in Turnton, 1840
  • Genus Ariolimax (the Banana slug)
  • Superfamily Buliminoidea Clessin, 1879
  • Superfamily Camaenoidea Pilsbry, 1895
  • Superfamily Clausilioidea Mörch, 1864
  • Superfamily Dyakioidea Gude & Woodward, 1921
  • Superfamily Gastrodontoidea Tryon, 1866
  • Superfamily Helicoidea Rafinesque, 1815
  • Superfamily Helixarionoidea Bourguignat, 1877
  • Superfamily Limacoidea Rafinesque, 1815
  • Superfamily Oleacinoidea H. & A. Adams, 1855
  • Superfamily Orthalicoidea Albers-Martens, 1860
  • Superfamily Plectopylidoidea Moellendorf, 1900
  • Superfamily Polygyroidea Pilsbry, 1894
  • Superfamily Punctoidea Morse, 1864
  • Superfamily Rhytidoidea Pilsbry, 1893
  • Superfamily Sagdidoidera Pilsbry, 1895
  • Superfamily Staffordioidea Thiele, 1931
  • Superfamily Streptaxoidea J.E. Gray, 1806
  • Superfamily Strophocheiloidea Thiele, 1926
  • Superfamily Trigonochlamydoidea Hese, 1882
  • Superfamily Zonitoidea Mörch, 1864
  • ? Superfamily Athoracophoroidea P. Fischer, 1883 (= Tracheopulmonata)
  • ? Superfamily Succineoidea Beck, 1837 (= Heterurethra)

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H. pomatia

Binomial name
Helix pomatia
Linnaeus, 1758

The Burgundy snail or Roman Snail or Edible Snail (Helix pomatia
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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Gastropoda
Cuvier, 1797

Subclasses

Eogastropoda (True Limpets and relatives)
Orthogastropoda

The gastropods, also previously known as gasteropods, or univalves
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Orthogastropoda

Taxonomy
  • See Text


In their work, which has become a standard reference in the field, Ponder and Lindberg (1997) showed that the Orthogastropoda
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Heterobranchia

Orders

Heterostropha
Opisthobranchia
Pulmonata

Heterobranchia (different-gilled snails) is a superorder of mollusks in the class gastropoda.

The families included in this recently established superorder of mollusks (G.
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Pulmonata

Suborder: Systellommatophora

Families
See text.

The Systellommatophora are a suborder of the order Pulmonata within the subclass Orthogastropoda of molluscs.
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Basommatophora
Keferstein in Bronn, 1864

Families
See text.

Basommatophora is a taxonomic suborder of air-breathing water snails, pulmonate gastropods in the order Pulmonata.
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Pulmonata

Suborder: Eupulmonata

Infraorders

Acteophila
Trimusculiformes
Stylommatophora

The Eupulmonata are a Suborder of the Order Pulmonata within the Subclass Orthogastropoda.
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Subclass may refer to:
  • Subclass (biology), a taxonomic rank intermediate between class and superorder
  • Subclass (computer science), a class that is derived from another class or classes

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snail is loosely applied to almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda which have coiled shells in the adult stage.

The class Gastropoda is the second largest class of invertebrates, second only to the insects.
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Stylommatophora

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Subinfraorders, superfamilies, and families
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lungs flank the heart and great vessels in the chest cavity.[1]]]

The lung is the essential respiration organ in air-breathing vertebrates, the most primitive being the lungfish.
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Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23 1769–May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist. He was the elder brother of Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838), also a naturalist.
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Pulmonata

Suborder: Systellommatophora

Families
See text.

The Systellommatophora are a suborder of the order Pulmonata within the subclass Orthogastropoda of molluscs.
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, (October 22 1783-September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life.
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Basommatophora
Keferstein in Bronn, 1864

Families
See text.

Basommatophora is a taxonomic suborder of air-breathing water snails, pulmonate gastropods in the order Pulmonata.
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Johannes Thiele (1860 - 1935) was a German zoologist specialized in malacology. His Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde (English edition published by the Smithsonian under the title Handbook of Systematic Malacology) is a standard work.
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John Edward Gray

Born January 12 1800(1800--)
Walsall, England
Died March 07 1875 (aged 75)

Nationality British
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, (October 22 1783-September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life.
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, as he is known in Europe, (October 22 1783-September 18 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life.
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John Edward Gray

Born January 12 1800(1800--)
Walsall, England
Died March 07 1875 (aged 75)

Nationality British
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Pulmonata

Suborder: Eupulmonata

Infraorders

Acteophila
Trimusculiformes
Stylommatophora

The Eupulmonata are a Suborder of the Order Pulmonata within the Subclass Orthogastropoda.
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William Healey Dall, (August 21, 1845 - March 27, 1927), was a great American naturalist and a prominent malacologist. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America. He would become America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks.
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Stylommatophora

A Stylommatophoran land snail from the family Hygromiidae


Scientific classification

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca
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Arionoidea

Arionoidea is a taxonomic group, a superfamily of land slugs, in other words shell-less snails.

This superfamily of terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks is in the infraorder Stylommatophora and in the order Pulmonata.
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John Edward Gray

Born January 12 1800(1800--)
Walsall, England
Died March 07 1875 (aged 75)

Nationality British
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Ariolimax
Morch, 1859

Species

Ariolimax californicus
Ariolimax columbianus
Ariolimax dolichophallus

The Banana slug is any species of the pulmonate gastropod genus, Ariolimax
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Dyakioidea
Gude & Woodward, 1921

Dyakioidea is a superfamily of gastropods from infraorder Stylommatophora in ordo Pulmonata.

Families

  • Dyakiidae

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