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Sigmurethra
Sigmurethra is a taxonomic category of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This is an informal group which includes most land snails and slugs. The two strong synapomorphies of Sigmurethra are a long pedal gland placed beneath a membrane and retractile tentacles. Several families in this group contain species of snails and slugs that create love darts. Sigmurethra are known from the Cretaceous to the Recent periods.
Taxonomy
2005 Taxonomy
In the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005, Sigmurethra is an "Informal Group", a subsection of the Stylommatophora. It consists of the following families:
limacoid clade
Informal group Sigmurethra continued
Two superfamilies belongs to clade Sigmurethra, but they are not in the limacoid clade. (Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)
New families after 2005
2017 Taxonomy
After excluding groups not related, the informal group Sigmurethra becomes suborder Helicina, with the following nine infraorders and a collection of families with no superfamily:
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