Calliotropidae
| Calliotropidae | |
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| Apertural view of shell of Bathybembix bairdii (Dall, 1889) with operculum. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea |
| Family: |
Calliotropidae Hickman & McLean, 1990 |
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Calliotropidae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.
Calliotropidae was classified as the subfamily Calliotropinae within Chilodontidae according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005.
Molecular phylogeny research on Seguenzioidea was published by Kano (2007).
Kano et al. (2009) elevated the subfamily Calliotropinae to family level as Calliotropidae.
Genera within the family Calliotropidae include:
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