Cocculinoidea

Cocculinoidea
Various examples of Coccopigya crinita (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Neomphaliones
Order: Cocculinida
Hazsprunar, 1987
Superfamily: Cocculinoidea
Dall, 1882
Families

Bathysciadiidae
Cocculinidae

Diversity[1]
51 extant species,

at least 4 fossil species

The Cocculinoidea is a superfamily of deepwater limpets (marine gastropods), the only superfamily in the order Cocculinida, one of the main orders of gastropods according to the taxonomy as set up by (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). The clade Cocciliniformia used to be designated as a superorder.

  1. ^ WoRMS. Taxon tree. accessed 28 November 2017.