Pyramidelloidea

Pyramidelloidea
live Turbonilla acutissima
Two views of a shells of Pyramidella acus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
J. E. Gray, 1840[1]

Pyramidelloidea is a superfamily of mostly very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks and micromollusks within the clade Panpulmonata.[2]

This is a voluminous taxon: above the species level close to 400 named taxa are referred to this gastropod superfamily.

Pyramidelloidea has both fossil and recent members. They live as ectoparasites on bivalve molluscs and polychaete worms, and have a sharp, piercing stylet instead of a radula.[3]

  1. ^ Gray, J. E. (1840). Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum (42nd ed.). London. pp. 370 pp.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jörger 2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Barnes, Robert D. (1982). Invertebrate Zoology. Philadelphia, PA: Holt-Saunders International. p. 376. ISBN 0-03-056747-5.