| Planaxidae Temporal range: Cretaceous(?)[1] - Recent |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Planaxidae Gray, 1850 |
| Diversity | |
| about 30-40 extant species[2] | |
Planaxidae, common name planaxids, are a taxonomic family of small and minute sea snails, pantropical marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.
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The following two subfamilies have been recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
The family Planaxidae comprises the following Recent (as opposed to fossil) genera:[3]
Planaxinae
Fossarinae