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Aplustridae
Sign in to saveThe Aplustridae is a taxonomic family of sea snails or bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acteonoidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCephalaspidea
- FamilyAplustridae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Aplustridae
- Collections
- MCZ, USNM, AM, UF, QM
- Recorded in
- United States, French Guiana, Mauritius, Portugal, Suriname, Australia, Fiji, Japan
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Acteonoidea
- Image
- Micromelo guamensis.jpg
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- Category:Aplustridae
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Life habits
- Genera
- References
The Aplustridae is a taxonomic family of sea snails or bubble snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Acteonoidea.
The former name of this family, Hydatinidae (Pilsbry, 1893) has been declared invalid.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aplustridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.