Cerithiimorpha

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Sorbeoconcha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda Subclass: Orthogastropoda Infraclass: Apogastropoda Superorder: Caenogastropoda Order: Sorbeoconcha Suborder: Cerithiimorpha
Superfamilies
Campaniloidea Cerithioidea Spanionematoidea

Cerithiimorpha is a group of sea snails, a middle level taxonomic division within the classification of marine gastropod mollusks. This is a suborder within the order Sorbeoconcha.

Note that not all taxonomists agree that these gastropod families should all be grouped within this suborder. Gastropod taxonomy is very much in flux currently because of all the new information coming from molecular phylogenetics, the study of the relationship between animals as it is reflected in their DNA. In another popular classification, the Campaniloidea] and Cerithioidea are separated in a suborder Discopoda for example.

[edit] Taxonomy

• Campaniloidea
  • Campanilidae
  • Plesiotrochidae
• Cerithioidea
  • Batillariidae
  • Brachytremidae
  • † Canterburyellidae
  • Cassiopidae
  • Cerithiidae
  • Dialidae
  • Diastomidae
  • Eoptychiidae
  • Eustomidae
  • Faxiidae
  • Lavigeriidae
  • Litiopidae
  • † Maoraxidae
  • Melanopsidae
  • Modulidae
  • Pachychilidae
  • Pachymelaniidae
  • Pareoridae
  • Pianaridae
  • Planaxidae
  • Potamididae
  • Procerithiidae
  • Pseudamaurinidae
  • Scaliolidae
  • Siliquariidae
  • Syrnolopsidae
  • Tenagodidae
  • Terebrellidae
  • Thiaridae
  • Turritellidae
  • Turritellopsidae
• Spationematoidea
  • Spanionematidae
  • Stephanozygidae