Volutoidea

Volutoidea
Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Rafinesque, 1815
Families

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Synonyms

Cancellarioidea Forbes & Hanley, 1851

Volutoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.[1]

This superfamily includes the chank snails, the dove snails, the volutes, the margin snails and others.

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Volutoidea Rafinesque, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1055738 on 2020-06-05