Carinariidae | |
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Some examples of Carinariidae from "Atlas Zoologique du Voyage de la corvette La Bonite (1845–1852)" | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Pterotracheoidea |
Family: | Carinariidae Blainville, 1818 |
Genera | |
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Carinariidae, known by the common name "heteropods" like their relatives in the Pterotracheoidea, is a taxonomic family of swimming or floating sea snails, pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.