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Chilodontaidae
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Chilodontaidae is a taxonomic family of mostly small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderSeguenziida
- FamilyChilodontaidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 263
- With media
- 26
- Family
- Chilodontaidae
- Collections
- SBMNH, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Ocean Indien, Brunei, Western Australia, Taiwan
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- 2005 taxonomy
- 2007 taxonomy
- Genera
- Genera brought into synonymy
- References
- External links
Chilodontaidae is a taxonomic family of mostly small deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
== Taxonomy == The family was previously in the superfamily Neritoidea in the order Neritopsina and the superorder Neritaemorphi.
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