Triphoroidea is a
superfamily of minute
sea snails,
marine gastropod molluscs or
micromollusc
A micromollusk is 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 ...
s within the informal group
Ptenoglossa
The Ptenoglossa is an informal taxonomic group of sea snails.
This group was considered paraphyletic or polyphyletic by Ponder and Lindberg (1997) in their classification of gastropod molluscs.
The database WoRMS considers this suborder as bel ...
.
Taxonomy
Families and subfamilies within this superfamily are as follows:
* † ''
Berendinellidae''
Guzhov, 2005
*
Cerithiopsidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
*
Newtoniellidae
Newtoniellidae is a family of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
A micromollusk is a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to mar ...
Korobkov, 1955
*
Triphoridae
Triphoridae is a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Ptenoglossa, within the clade Hypsogastropoda. Almost all the species in this family are micromollusks and almost all are left-handed in shell ...
J.E. Gray, 1847
;Families brought into synonymy :
* Eumetulidae synonym of Newtoniellidae
* Triforidae synonym of Triphoridae
References
Taxonomy.nl
Ptenoglossa
Taxa named by John Edward Gray
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