Neritoidea
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| Neritoidea | |
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| Two different views of shells of the freshwater nerite Theodoxus danubialis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Neritimorpha clade Cycloneritimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Neritoidea Rafinesque, 1815 |
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Neritoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of mostly sea snails, nerites and their allies, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cycloneritimorpha (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
Previously this superfamily was in the order Neritoida in the superorder Neritopsina.
[edit] Families
Families within the superfamily Neritoidea are as follows (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):
- Neritidae, the nerites, freshwater and marine species
- Phenacolepadidae, false limpets
- † Pileolidae
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