Vanikoroidea

Vanikoroidea
Apertural view of the shell of Malluvium otohimae, family Hipponicidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Vanikoroidea
J. E. Gray, 1840
Families

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Vanikoroidea is a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.[1]

Families

Families within the superfamily Vanikoroidea include:

(Families that are exclusively fossil are indicated with a dagger †)

This classification follows the studies by Ponder & Warén, published in 1988,[2] and Ponder, published in 1998.

References

  1. ↑ Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia 47 (1–2).
  2. ↑ W.F. Ponder &A. Warén (1988). "Classification of the Caenogastropoda and Heterostropha - A list of the family-group names and higher taxa". Malacological review. suppl. 4: 288–328.


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