Neritoidea | |
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Two different views of shells of the freshwater nerite Theodoxus danubialis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): |
clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
Superfamily: |
Neritoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
clade Cycloneritimorpha
Neritoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of mostly sea snails, nerites and their allies, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Previously this superfamily was in the order Neritoida in the superorder Neritopsina.
Families within the superfamily Neritoidea are as follows (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):