Epitonioidea

Epitonioidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
informal group Ptenoglossa
Superfamily: Epitonioidea
Berry, S.S., 1910
Families

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Epitonioidea is a superfamily of planktonic and ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs within the informal group Ptenoglossa.[1] This superfamily includes the wentletraps and the purple snails.

Taxonomy

Families and subfamilies within this superfamily are as follows:

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).