Trochoidea (superfamily)

This article is about a superfamily of sea snails. For the genus of land snails, see Trochoidea (genus).

Trochoidea
Temporal range: Ordovician–Recent[1]
A live individual of Tegula pulligo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Families

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Synonyms
  • Angarioidea Gray, 1857
  • Phasianelloidea Swainson, 1840
  • Trochacea (suffix -oidea mandatory for a superfamily name following current ICZN art. 29.2.)
  • Turbinoidea Rafinesque, 1815

Trochoidea is a superfamily of small to very large vetigastropod sea snails with gills and an operculum.[2] Species within this superfamily have nacre as the inner shell layer. The families within this superfamily include the Trochidae, the top snails. This superfamily is the largest vetigastropodan superfamily, containing more than 2,000 species.[3]

This taxon is not the same as a pulmonate land snail genus which is spelled the same way: Trochoidea (genus).

  1. ^ Lindberg, edited by Winston F. Ponder, David R. (2008). Phylogeny and evolution of the Mollusca. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25092-5. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Gofas, S. (2013). Trochoidea. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156489 on 2013-06-29
  3. ^ Williams, Suzanne T. (2012). "Advances in molecular systematics of the vetigastropod superfamily Trochoidea". Zoologica Scripta. 41 (6): 571–595. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00552.x.