Volvatellidae

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Volvatellidae
Volvatella angeliniana.jpg
Volvatella angeliniana
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superfamily: Oxynooidea
Family: Volvatellidae
Pilsbry, 1895
Genera
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]

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.