Mitroidea is a
superfamily of
Recent
The Holocene () is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago. It follows the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene together form the Qu ...
and fossil
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...
s within the order
Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda is an order of aquatic snails, both freshwater and marine gastropod molluscs.
Description
The available fossil record of Neogastropoda is relatively complete, and supports a widely accepted evolutionary scenario of an Early Cre ...
.
[MolluscaBase (2018). Mitroidea Swainson, 1831. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1055728 on 2018-03-04]
Families
*
Charitodoronidae Fedosov, Herrmann, Kantor & Bouchet, 2018
*
Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitres or mitre shells, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails, widely distributed marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.
Both the Latin name and the common name a ...
Swainson, 1831
*
Pyramimitridae
Pyramimitridae, known as mitre shells, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails, widely distributed marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Mitroidea.MolluscaBase (2020). MolluscaBase. Pyrami ...
Cossmann, 1901
;Family brought into synonymy:
* Pleioptygmatidae
Quinn, 1989 synonym of Pleioptygmatinae
Quinn, 1989 represented as
Mitridae
Mitridae, known as mitres or mitre shells, are a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails, widely distributed marine (ocean), marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Mitroidea.
Both the Latin name and the common name a ...
Swainson, 1831
References
* Kantor Y., Lozouet P., Puillandre N. & Bouchet P. , 2014. ''Lost and found: The Eocene family Pyramimitridae (Neogastropoda) discovered in the Recent fauna of the Indo-Pacific''. Zootaxa 3754(3): 239-276
* Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). ''Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families''. Malacologia. 61(1-2): 1-526
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Neogastropoda
Gastropod superfamilies