Limacoidei
infraorder of gastropods
The Limacoidei is a taxonomic infraorder of air-breathing land snails, semislugs and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the suborder Helicina.
Distribution
The original ancestral area of limacoid families is thought to be the Palearctic region and south-eastern Asia.
Etymology
The word "limacoid" means "resembling a slug".
Typography of the name
In 1998, for the same taxon, Hausdorf used the name Limacoidea sensu lato.
The name of this taxon, the limacoid clade, was written by Bouchet & Rocroi (2005) with quotation marks like this: "limacoid clade".
Other typographical variants are used by various other authors, for example capitalizing and restricting the use of the quote marks thus: "Limacoid" clade and "Limacoid clade".
2003 taxonomy by Schileyko
The study of A. Schileyko in this group, published in parts 8–11 of his monograph between 2002 and 2003, did not discuss the system that Hausdorf had proposed. However, Schileyko refers to the work of Hausdorf, where this system was proposed, in part 10 (2003) on p. 1390. So he was acquainted with this system before 2003.
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