Volutoidea
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| Volutoidea Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Volutoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Cancellarioidea Forbes & Hanley, 1851 | |
Volutoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.[1]
This superfamily includes the chank snails, the dove snails, the volutes, the margin snails and others.
Shell description
[edit]The shell of the snails in this superfamily vary greatly in shape and degree of ornamentation. The shells have an oval aperture, and a noticeable siphonal canal.
Families
[edit]Families within the superfamily Volutoidea are as follows:
- family Cancellariidae Forbes & Hanley, 1851
- family Cystiscidae Stimpson, 1865 -- 15 genera
- family Granulinidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995
- family Marginellidae Fleming, 1828 -- 30 genera
- family Marginellonidae Coan, 1965
- family Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815 -- 49 genera
- Synonyms
- Paladmetidae Stephenson, 1941 † synonym of Admetinae Troschel, 1865
- Plesiocystiscidae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995: synonym of Plesiocystiscinae G. A. Coovert & H. K. Coovert, 1995
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Volutoidea.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Volutoidea Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1055738 on 2020-06-05
- Ponder, WF & DR Lindberg 1997. Towards a phylogeny of gastropod molluscs: an analysis using morphological characters. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 119(2): 83-265.
- Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1–526.
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