Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Hygrophila

Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Superfamily group names

*Acroloxoidea*	Thiele, 1931	synonym
*Planorboidea*	Rafinesque, 1815	synonym

Children

Acroloxidae Thiele, 1931
Lymnaeidae Rafinesque, 1815
Physidae Fitzinger, 1833
Planorbidae Rafinesque, 1815

Literature

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. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526.
additional source	Saadi, A. J.; Davison, A.; Wade, C. M. (2020). Molecular phylogeny of freshwater snails and limpets (Panpulmonata: Hygrophila). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:489336

Ruud A. Bank. Lymnaeoidea Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/9810dcf3-d727-4962-964c-360ad2b397ae