Aillyidae

Aillyidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora

informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Aillyoidea

Family:
Aillyidae

Synonyms

see text

Aillyidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.[2]

Aillyidae is the only family in the superfamily Aillyoidea.[2]

This family and the genus is named in honor of Swedish malacologist Adolf d'Ailly (1855-1927).[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b Baker H. B. (1955). "Heterurethrous and aulocopod". The Nautilus 68(4): 109-112.
  2. ^ a b Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.