Volvatellidae

Volvatellidae
Volvatella angeliniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Superfamily:	Oxynooidea
Family:	Volvatellidae Pilsbry, 1895
Genera
Ascobulla Marcus, 1972 Volvatella Pease, 1860
Synonyms
Arthessidae C. R. Boettger, 1963 Ascobullidae Habe, Okutani & Nishiwaki, 1994

Volvatellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Oxynooidea. ^[1]

This family has no subfamilies.

Genera

There are two genera in the family Volvatellidae: ^{[2] [3]}

• Ascobulla Marcus, 1972
• Volvatella Pease, 1860

References

1. Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). "Classification and Nomenclator of Gastropod Families". Malacologia. 47 (1–2).
2. Jensen, K. R. (1996). "Phylogenetic systematics and classification of the Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 351 (1335): 91–122. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0006.
3. Händeler, K.; Grzymbowski, Y. P.; Krug, P. J.; Wägele, H. (2009). "Functional chloroplasts in metazoan cells - a unique evolutionary strategy in animal life". Frontiers in Zoology . 6: 28. doi: 10.1186/1742-9994-6-28 . PMC   2790442 . PMID   19951407.