Umbraculoidea

Umbraculoidea
A live individual of Tylodina perversa in situ
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Euopisthobranchia[1]
clade Umbraculida
Superfamily:
Umbraculoidea

Dall, 1889 (1827)
Superfamilies

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Umbraculoidea is a superfamily of unusual false limpets with a thin soft patelliform shell, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Umbraculida, within the clade Euopisthobranchia.

There are two families in this superfamily, which is listed as the only superfamily in the clade Umbraculida within the informal group Opisthobranchia in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005).[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Jörger 2010 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Bouchet, Philippe; Rocroi, Jean-Pierre; Frýda, Jiri; Hausdorf, Bernard; Ponder, Winston; Valdés, Ángel & Warén, Anders (2005). "Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2). Hackenheim, Germany: ConchBooks: 1–397. ISBN 3-925919-72-4. ISSN 0076-2997.