Cocculinoidea

Cocculinoidea
Various examples of Cocculiniformia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Cocculiniformia Hazsprunar, 1987
Superfamily:	Cocculinoidea
Families
Bathysciadiidae Cocculinidae

The Cocculinoidea, as now designated, is a superfamily of deepwater limpets, marine gastropods, the only superfamily in the clade Cocculiniformia, one of the main clades of gastropods according to the taxonomy as set up by (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). Cocciliniformia was previously designated as a superorder, but is no longer.

Taxonomy

According to Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), the superfamily Cocculinoidea contains the families Bathysciadiidae and Cocculinidae.

The Cocculinoidea (Cocculinacea Dall, 1882) are combined with the Lepetelliodea (Lepetellacea Dall, 1882) in Cocculinoformia Haszprunar, 1987, referred to as a clade in Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005 although it was previously designated a superorder by Ponder & Lindberg, 1997. Bouchet & Rocroi(2005) leave the Cocculiniformia to consist only of the Cocculinoidea, having moved the Lepetelloidea to the Vetigastropoda.

(Note that before the recent stipulation by the ICZN , the majority of invertebrate superfamilies ended in -acea, or -aceae, not -oidea.)

References

• Keen, A.Myra 1958; Sea Shells of Tropical West America, Stanford University Press.
• Moore, R.C. 1952, Gastropods, in Moore, Lalicker, and Fischer; Invertebrate Fossils, McGraw-Hill Book.

Further reading

• Strong E. E., Harasewych M. G. & Haszprunar G. (2005) "Phylogeny of the Cocculinoidea (Mollusca, Gastropoda)." Invertebrate Biology 122(2): 114-125. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2003.tb00077.x