Scissurelloidea
Scissurelloidea | |
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Shell of Scissurella costata | |
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(unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda
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Superfamily: | Scissurelloidea Gray, 1847
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Scissurelloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.[1]
Taxonomy[]
This superfamily consists of two following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Family Scissurellidae Gray, 1847
- Family Anatomidae McLean, 1989
Geiger (2009)[2] updated two other subfamilies to family level:
Superfamily Scissurelloidea:
- Family Anatomidae
- Family Depressizonidae
- Family Larocheidae
- Family Scissurellidae
References[]
- ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
- ^ Geiger D. L.(8 May 2009) "A new species of Depressizona and the family rank of Depressizonidae". Zootaxa 2059: 57-59. abstract, full article.
Categories:
- Scissurelloidea
- Vetigastropoda
- Taxa named by John Edward Gray
- Vetigastropoda stubs