Eupulmonata

{{Short description|Clade of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Snail-WA.jpg | image_caption = ''Cepaea sp.'' | taxon = Eupulmonata | authority = Haszprunar & Huber, 1990 | subdivision_ranks = Orders | subdivision = *Systellommatophora *Stylommatophora *Ellobiida }}

'''Eupulmonata''' is a taxonomic clade of air-breathing gastropod molluscs. The great majority of this group are land snails and slugs, but some are intertidal or inhabit coastal saltmarshes and mangroves.

Possible synapomorphy of the group are globineurons (small cells) in the procerebrum.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Krug |first1=Patrick J. |last2=Caplins |first2=Serena A. |last3=Algoso |first3=Krisha |last4=Thomas |first4=Kanique |last5=Valdés |first5=Ángel A. |last6=Wade |first6=Rachael |last7=Wong |first7=Nur Leena W. S. |last8=Eernisse |first8=Douglas J. |last9=Kocot |first9=Kevin M. |date=2022-04-13 |title=Phylogenomic resolution of the root of Panpulmonata, a hyperdiverse radiation of gastropods: new insight into the evolution of air breathing |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |language=en |volume=289 |issue=1972 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2021.1855 |issn=0962-8452 |pmc=8984808 |pmid=35382597}}</ref>

Eyes positioned on the tips of the tentacles were considered a synapomorphy of a clade named Geophila (Stylommatophora + Systellommatophora), but a 1972 phylogenomic study found strong support for a clade uniting Ellobioidea (eyes at the base of tentacles) and Systelommatophora (eyes on the tentacle tips). Stalked eyes thus likely evolved twice independently.<ref name=":0" />

==Taxonomy==

Source:<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Bouchet |first1=Philippe |last2=Rocroi |first2=Jean-Pierre |last3=Hausdorf |first3=Bernhard |last4=Kaim |first4=Andrzej |last5=Kano |first5=Yasunori |last6=Nützel |first6=Alexander |last7=Parkhaev |first7=Pavel |last8=Schrödl |first8=Michael |last9=Strong |first9=Ellen E. |date=2017 |title=Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families |url=http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.4002/040.061.0201 |journal=Malacologia |language=en |volume=61 |issue=1–2 |pages=1–526 |doi=10.4002/040.061.0201 |s2cid=91051256 |issn=0076-2997|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> *Order Ellobiida **Superfamily Ellobioidea L. Pfeiffer, 1854 ***Ellobiidae L. Pfeiffer, 1854 ***Otinidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 ***Trimusculidae J. Q. Burch, 1945 *Order Systellommatophora **Superfamily Onchidioidea Rafinesque, 1815 ***Onchidiidae Rafinesque, 1815 **Superfamily Veronicelloidea Gray, 1840 ***Veronicellidae Gray, 1840 ***Rathouisiidae Heude, 1885 *Order Stylommatophora **(for inner division, see the Stylommatophora page) [[File:Caucasotachea_atrolabiata.jpg|thumb|''Caucasotachea atrolabiata'']] [[File:Helicella_macedonica.jpg|thumb|''Helicella macedonica'']]

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Panpulmonata