Veronicelloidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land slugs. They are terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the clade Systellommatophora.[1]

Veronicelloidea
A live individual of Laevicaulis alte
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Systellommatophora
Superfamily: Veronicelloidea
Gray, 1840
Families

family Veronicellidae
family Rathouisiidae

Synonyms

Rathouisioidea

Taxonomy

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The following two families were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

References

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  1. ^ 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.