Scissurelloidea

Superfamily of gastropods

Scissurelloidea
Shell of Scissurella costata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Superfamily: Scissurelloidea
Gray, 1847

Scissurelloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the subclass Vetigastropoda.[1][2]

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)[3] updated two other subfamilies to family level:

Superfamily Scissurelloidea:

  • Family Anatomidae
  • Family Depressizonidae
  • Family Larocheidae
  • Family Scissurellidae

References

  1. ^ a b Scissurelloidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.
  2. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
  3. ^ Geiger D. L.(8 May 2009) "A new species of Depressizona and the family rank of Depressizonidae". Zootaxa 2059: 57-59. abstract, full article.
Taxon identifiers
Scissurelloidea
  • v
  • t
  • e