| Carinariidae | |
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| Some examples of Carinariidae from "Atlas Zoologique du Voyage de la corvette La Bonite (1845–1852)" | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Pterotracheoidea |
| Family: | Carinariidae Blainville, 1818 |
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Carinariidae, known by the common name "heteropods" like their relatives in the Pterotracheoidea, is a taxonomic family of swimming or floating sea snails, pelagic marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.