Volvatellidae

Volvatellidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Sacoglossa
clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily: Oxynooidea
Family: Volvatellidae
Pilsbry, 1895
Synonyms
  • Arthessidae C. R. Boettger, 1963
  • Ascobullidae Habe, Okutani & Nishiwaki, 1994

Volvatellidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Oxynooidea.[1]

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

There are two genera in the family Volvatellidae[2][3]:

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1-2). 
  2. ^ Jensen K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 351 (1335): 91-122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
  3. ^ Händeler K., Grzymbowski Y. P., Krug P. J. & Wägele H. (2009) "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology 6: 28. doi:10.1186/1742-9994-6-28.