Scissurelloidea
Encyclopedia
Scissurelloidea is a superfamily
of minute sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the clade Vetigastropoda
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Geiger (2009) updated two other subfamilias to family level:
Superfamily Scissurelloidea
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
of minute sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the clade Vetigastropoda
Vetigastropoda
Vetigastropoda is a major taxonomic group of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks that form a very ancient lineage. Taxonomically Vetigastropoda are sometimes treated as an order although they are a clade in Bouchet and Rocroi, 2005....
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Taxonomy
This superfamily consists of two following families (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is currently the most up-to-date overall system for classifying gastropod mollusks...
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- Family ScissurellidaeScissurellidaeScissurellidae, sometimes known by the common name little slit snails, are a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda...
Gray, 1847 - Family AnatomidaeAnatomidaeAnatomidae is a family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda ....
McLean, 1989
Geiger (2009) updated two other subfamilias to family level:
Superfamily Scissurelloidea
- Family ScissurellidaeScissurellidaeScissurellidae, sometimes known by the common name little slit snails, are a taxonomic family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda...
- Family Larocheidae
- Family AnatomidaeAnatomidaeAnatomidae is a family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda ....
- Family Depressizonidae