*** Welcome to piglix ***

Neritopsoidea

Neritopsoidea
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.33391 - Neritopsis radula (Linnaeus. 1758) - Neritopsidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Neritopsis radula shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Neritimorpha
Clade: Cycloneritimorpha
Superfamily: Neritopsoidea
Gray, 1847
Families

See text.


See text.

Neritopsoidea is a taxonomic grouping, a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha, within the clade Neritimorpha, (according to Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), or in the order Neritoina within superorder Cycloneritimorpha within the subclass Neritimorpha, (according to Bandel, 2007).

Neritopsoidea was placed in the order Neritoida, the superorder Neritopsina and the subclass Orthogastropoda according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Ponder & Lindberg, 1997.

This family consists of the following six families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Bandel (2007) described four new families in the Neritopsoidea:

Superfamily Neritopsoidea


...
Wikipedia

...