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Leptopoda Gray, 1857 [9 May]
Reference: Guide to the systematic distribution
of Mollusca in the British Museum, Part
7:64,128
Remarks: Division of the suborder Rostrifera,
containing the families Strombidae and
Phohdae.
LiuEVALLospiROiDEi Golikov & Starobogatov,
1989
Reference: Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta,
187:70
Remarks: Established as a suborder of Bellerophontiformes
containing the family Liljeval-
lospiridaeonly.
Limaces Kölliker, 1847
Reference: Giornale dell'Imperiale Reale Istituto
lombardo di Scienze. Lettere edArti, 1 6: 247
Remarks: One of three divisions (the other two
being Cephalopoda and Conchífera) of the
molluscs, containing the "orders" Pteropoda,
Heteropoda, and Gasteropoda.
LiMACiFORMii Starobogatov, 1984
Reference: [in Amitrov] Spravochnik po
sistematike iskopaemykh organismov. 39
Remarks: Substitute name for Stylommatophora,
established as a superorder of Pulmonata.
Also (same reference) spelled and
ranked as order Limaciformes, as a substitute
name for Helicida. Spelling emended by
Golikov & Starobogatov (1989: 69) to Limaclones,
substitute name for Pulmonata,
ranked as subclass.
LiMACiNoiDEi Starobogatov, 1989
Reference: [in Golikov & Starobogatov] Trudy
Zoologicheskogo Instituía, 187: 75
Remarks: Established as a suborder contain-
ing the family Limacinidae only.
LiMAxiNA Schileyko, 1979
Reference: Trudy Zoologicheskogo Institute,
80:57
Remarks: Established as a suborder of Helicida,
containing the infraorders Trigonochlamydina
and Limaxinia, the latter
containing the families Boettgerillidae,
Limacidae, and Agriolimacidae. Spelling and
rank emended by Muratov (1999: 22) to in-
fraorder Limacoinei.
LiMNAEiDA. See Lymnaeida.
LiMNOPHiLA Menke, 1828
Reference: Synopsis methodica molluscorum:
20
NOMENCLÁTOR OF GASTROPOD FAMILIES 213
Remarks: Original spelling "Limneophilen"
(vernacular) in Hartmann (1 821 : 32-33, 43).
Established as suborder of Coelopneumonata
Gymnostoma, containing the family
Lymnaeidaeonly.
LissoGNATHA Westerlund, 1902 [after 1 Decem-
ber]
Reference: Acta Academia Scientiarum etArtium
Slaverum Mehdionalium, 1 51 : 84
Remarks: Established as a subdivision of the
Geophila containing the families Vitrinidae,
Allognathidae, and Leucochroidae.
LiTTORiNATA Pchelintsev, 1963
Reference: Briukhonogie Mezozoia Gornogo
Kryma: 47
Remarks: Established as a suborder containing
the superfamilies Littorinoidea, Calyp-
traeoidea, and Rissooidea. Spelling and rank
emended by Golikov & Starobogatov (1975:
21 0) to superorder Littorinimorpha.
LoBiGERiNA Minichev & Starobogatov, 1979
Reference: Vsesoiuznoe soveshchanie po
izucheniiu molliuskov, 6: 19
Remarks: Established as suborder of the order
Oxynoida. No contents given.
LoNGicoMMisuRATA,1892 [15 July]
Reference: Morphologisches Jahrbuch, 18(3):
538
Remarks: Division of the Neotaenioglossa
containing the families Tritoniidae, Doliidae,
Strombidae, and Pteroceridae.
Lymnaeida Minichev & Starobogatov, 1975
Reference: Vesoiuznoe soveshchanie po
izucheniiu molliuskov, 5: 11
Remarks: Original spelling Limnaeida. Estab-
lished at the rank of order, as a substitute
name for Hygrophila. Spelling and rank
emended by Starobogatov (in Amitrov, 1 984:
39) to order Lymnaeiformes and superorder
Lymnaeiformii; by H. Nordsieck (1993a: 48)
to suborder Lymnaeoidei (in synonymy of
Branchiopulmonata) and infraorder Lymnae-
oinei.
Macluritina Cox & Knight, 1960 [February]
Reference: Proceedings of the Malacological
Society of London, 33(6): 262
Remarks: Established as a suborder of Archaeogastropoda
containing the superfami-
lies Macluritoidea and Euomphaloidea. Spelling
and rank emended by Minichev &
Starobogatov (in Amitrov, 1984: 38) to sub-
class Maduritiones and order Macluritiformes.