Volutoidea Temporal range: Cretaceous to Recent
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Scientific 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.