Vanikoroidea
Vanikoroidea | |
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Apertural view of the shell of Malluvium otohimae, family Hipponicidae | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Vanikoroidea Gray, 1840 |
Families | |
See text |
Vanikoroidea is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.[1]
Families
Families within the superfamily Vanikoroidea include:
- Family Vanikoridae Gray, 1840
- Family Haloceratidae Warén & Bouchet, 1991
- Family Hipponicidae Troschel, 1861
- † Family Omalaxidae Cossmann, 1916
(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)
This classification follows the studies by Ponder & Warén, published in 1988,[2] and Ponder, published in 1998.
References
- ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- ↑ W.F. Ponder & A. Warén (1988). "Classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - A list of the family-group names and higher taxa". Malacological review. suppl. 4: 288–328.
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