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Capulidae
Sign in to saveThe Capulidae, the cap snails or cap shells, are a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.
Species
cap limpets
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyCapulidae
Die Mützenschnecken oder Kappenschnecken (Capulidae) sind eine Familie kleiner bis großer Schnecken aus der Gruppe der Caenogastropoda mit kappenförmigen Gehäusen, die in allen großen Ozeanen vor allem in größeren Meerestiefen zu finden sind.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 572
- With media
- 196
- Family
- Capulidae
- Collections
- LACM, UWBM, YPM, UCMP, USNM, NRM
- Recorded in
- United States, Fiji, Germany, CuraçAo, Sweden, Antarctica
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Capulidae, the cap snails or cap shells, are a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs.
Capulidae is the only family in the superfamily Capuloidea. Capulidae is assigned to the paraphyletic order Littorinimorpha, but is more closely related to neogastropods than some other littorinimorphs as it is a member of the clade Latrogastropoda.
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