Architectonicidae
Sign in to saveArchitectonicidae, common name the staircase shells or sundials, are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia (= Allogastropoda) of the clade Heterobranchia.
Species
sun shells
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyArchitectonicidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded27,142
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 586
- With media
- 70
- Family
- Architectonicidae
- Collections
- UWBM, LACM, PRI, UF, SIO, UCMP
- Recorded in
- Fiji, United States, Chile, Japan, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Philippines
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Architectonicoidea
- Image
- Architectonica sp. (Marine snail).jpg
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- Commons category
- Architectonicidae
- taxon name
- Architectonicidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Architectonicidae
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Encyclopedic overview
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Architectonicidae, common name the staircase shells or sundials, are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the informal group Lower Heterobranchia (= Allogastropoda) of the clade Heterobranchia.
The extinct families † Amphitomariidae Bandel, 1994 and † Cassianaxidae Bandel, 1996 belong to the same superfamily.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Architectonicidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.