Biology:Volvatellidae

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Short description: Family of gastropods

Volvatellidae
Volvatella angeliniana.jpg
Volvatella angeliniana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Sacoglossa
clade Oxynoacea
Superfamily:
Family:
Volvatellidae

Pilsbry, 1895
Synonyms
  • Arthessidae C. R. Boettger, 1963
  • Ascobullidae Habe, Okutani & Nishiwaki, 1994

Volvatellidae is a taxonomic family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks 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. PMID 19951407. 

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