Pleurotomarioidea
Sign in to savePleurotomarioidea is a superfamily of small to large marine gastropods included in the order Pleurotomariida of the subclass Vetigastropoda.
Species
オキナエビスガイ上科
Superfamily
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderPleurotomariida
Habitatmarine
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- Evolutionary history
- Taxonomy
- 2004 taxonomy
- 1993 and 2005 taxonomy
- 2008 taxonomy
- References
Pleurotomarioidea is a superfamily of small to large marine gastropods included in the order Pleurotomariida of the subclass Vetigastropoda.
These are the slit shells, originally named Pleurotomariacea, in keeping with the convention for naming superfamilies at the time. This updated version of the name for the taxon is usually used by students of the living Mollusca. Paleontologists often still use the name Pleurotomariacea instead.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pleurotomarioidea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.